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Subject: Re: About blitz and long time controls

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 11:37:23 10/15/03

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On October 15, 2003 at 14:15:54, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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


which is especially funny, since Hiarcs 9 (a "Slow searcher") is very good at
blitz and looses (only a bit) on longer tiem controls.

regards Joachim



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