Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 00:33:43 10/14/03
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On October 13, 2003 at 14:38:17, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>On October 13, 2003 at 14:19:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
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>>On October 13, 2003 at 13:09:03, Charles Roberson wrote:
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>>> You make the statement that Diep is a positional engine and you chose it based
>>>on that. So, why did you run G/5 matches? At G/5 tactics and search depth
>>>is crucial.
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>>I would like to bring to your attention that tactics and search depth are
>>crucial at any time controls in chess.
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>>Showing dimishing returns from increased search depth is so difficult that in
>>practice there is little difference between blitz and long time controls.
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>>If engine A gets a beating at blitz, expect it to get the same beating if you
>>repeat the match with long time controls.
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>> Christophe
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>Compared with the same opponents, my very slow and positional BigLion
>gains 100 Elo at long time controls. This consistently true.
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>/Matthias.
Your program has a problem...
Christophe
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