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Subject: Re: NPS challenge

Author: martin fierz

Date: 04:23:46 12/16/03

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On December 16, 2003 at 07:13:46, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 16, 2003 at 06:12:18, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>On December 15, 2003 at 20:31:29, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>Did you think you'd be playing this many games?!  ;)
>>>
>>>I am sooo tempted to do my 'own' version of the Berger challenge!!
>>>
>>
>>There is still the 100:1 challenge to be played. Are you volunteering ?
>>
>>Anyone else ?
>>
>>This will be a slower affair. I would like Junior to have the equivalent of
>>30min/game on decent hardware, so maybe 25+10 vs. 2500+1000. 10 games should
>>take about 2 weeks.
>>
>>If you have a dual, it will take half the time, or maybe play twice the games.
>
>I guess ponder is off(otherwise you can ponder on more than one move of the
>opponent).
>
>>
>>I think it should be played with books, but if there is objection to that, I'm
>>ok with symmetric positions that are not too deep in the game.
>>
>>I'm thinking end of January. I may put up a beta version, and Bob should also
>>have time to put up a "best and final version".
>>
>>Amir
>
>based on peter's result it seems that Junior8 has problems to win even with 10:1
>speed handicap so it seems that Crafty is a clear favourite unless you
>improved Junior8 by more than 150 elo.
>
>Uri

i believe this depends on the rate of play. at blitz time controls, i would
expect 10/100 : 1 to be much more important than at long time controls. that
would be another experiment to do :-)

cheers
  martin



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