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Subject: Re: About blitz and long time controls

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:13:55 10/15/03

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On October 15, 2003 at 14:37:23, Joachim Rang wrote:

>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



Hiarcs is a chess program. Slow or fast means nothing. This concept is useless.
It carries no meaning from a chess point of view.



    Christophe



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