Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 10:36:27 10/15/03
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On October 15, 2003 at 11:22:05, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On October 15, 2003 at 11:11:34, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>Other programs like Crafty, Ruffian, Gandalf do indeed profit more from better >>hardware. I just don't think that Tiger is one of them. This could possibly be >>the reason for Christophe's thoughts on the time control difference. >> >>Peter. > >it has to do with HOW the programs work. >some programs get most of their strength by coming deep. >those programs run good on slow hardware AND on fast hardware. > >Tiger is a good example. > >There are other programs that get most of their strength by getting everything >evaluated accurate. they do not come deep very fast. they need a kind of >PLATFORM to reach. When they reached this platform they play good. > >it now depends if the pc has the speed to let the program reach this or >the time >control is long enough. > >e.g. > >you give fritz and rebel >2 seconds to think. > >in most of the cases fritz is deeper in search then rebel. >i guess in most of the cases fritz is stronger when having 2 seconds. > >now you give both programs 2 minutes. > >and the situataion is different. > >in many cases rebel will have the better moves. not because it comes >deeper than fritz. > >but because it came deep enough not to blunder and used more sophisticated >evaluations to find the better move. Are you saying that rebel is the better at deep analysis ?, I have yet to see a program compare to Fritz8 in playing head to head in deep analysis such as in CC chess, but I do not own Rebel !
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