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

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 03:52:09 10/14/03

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On October 14, 2003 at 06:33:39, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

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


Come on, Omid.

You shouldn't sabotage my attempt to "pull Chris' leg" a bit. -:)


BTW i guess that Falcon is the successor of Genesis, is it a complete re-design
?
And it's really outplaying CT at Blitz ?

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



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