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Subject: Re: Diep as a strong sparring opponent (longish)?

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:
>
>>On October 13, 2003 at 13:09:03, Charles Roberson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  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.
>>
>>Showing dimishing returns from increased search depth is so difficult that in
>>practice there is little difference between blitz and long time controls.
>>
>>If engine A gets a beating at blitz, expect it to get the same beating if you
>>repeat the match with long time controls.
>>
>>
>>
>>    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.
>
>/Matthias.



Your program has a problem...



    Christophe



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