Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:09:15 09/19/03
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On September 19, 2003 at 15:22:04, Claude Le Page wrote: > Hello! > Why not corespondance play ( or E-mail play ) between engines , with usual >rules of correspondence play ?? > it could be interesting for players chiefly interested by analysis > Friendly Yours > Claude Le Page I imagine correspondance games between computers would take WAY too long to determine which engine is better. I tried playing a computer match at 40 moves in 4 hours (repeated), and it easily took over a day for some of the games to finish because the programs would get into the late endgame and it would be a dead draw, but the programs would move their rooks around for 50 moves. Imagine a correspondance game where the last 100 ply was nothing but pointless rook moves. You would waste half a year in finishing a single game. Maybe if you're lucky you finish two games a year, and you can have a meaningfull match by the end of your life. Of course, by then, the programs you are using to play the match with are completely outdated and no one will really care. Computers vs. humans in correspondance chess is interesting, but that isn't the issue I'm talking about. I'm only talking about computer vs. computer games.
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