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

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 03:33:39 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 05:58:27, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>>...
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>>The version with all the extensions and checks in quiescence decisively
>>outplayed Tiger in blitz time control (5 minute per game on my PIII/733MHz),
>>while it got demolished in 1 hour per game time control...
>
>Doesn't this mean that the architecture of Tiger sucks ?

No, it means that the architecture of Falcon using all the extensions sucks :)
Sometimes at the 4th iteration it searches as deep as 40+ plies in some lines,
which gives it a huge tactical strength in lower time controls. But the tactical
advantage disappears in longer time controls, and what remains is a bad
positional play with no decisive tactical strength.

Although this results in a very good blitz performance on my slow hardware, I
believe in faster hardware the tactical advantage will be insignificant even in
blitz time controls.


>Looks like it plays strong on longer time controls and looses on blitz.
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>Uli
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