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Subject: Re: About blitz and long time controls

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 11:15:54 10/15/03

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On October 15, 2003 at 13:48:26, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On October 15, 2003 at 13:36:27, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>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 !
>
>i do say that hiarcs, rebel and other programs do profit more from TIME than
>fast-searchers do.
>
>therefore the fast-searchers are stronger on FAST time controls such as game in
>5, or 3'.
>
>but the things change when you play 40/120 or 60/60.



And yet again that aging misconception about "fast searchers".

If the programs did not display their NPS, we would see very different
conclusions.

People are influenced by the NPS display and draw conclusions mostly from that
number, not from the playing style/strength of the programs.



    Christophe



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