Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 09:50:36 12/16/98
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On December 15, 1998 at 02:08:19, Steven Juchnowski wrote: >Is there an explaination as to why the relative strength >of a Chessmaster personality should vary under different time >controls? > >Chessmaster 6555 appears to be stronger than Chessmaster 6000-4 >under blitz conditions, why is this not necessarily true under longer >time controls. After all both personaliies are using the same chess engine. > >Regards to all you Chessmaster reseachers. >Steven That can happen with any two engines. If you slow down a current computer by a factor of 1000 and play a match between a good current program on it against a good old program in and old computer (from when the computers were 1000 times slower) at standard time control; I am sure the old program will win, because it was optimized to get the most of the available resources at that time (which were scarce). On the other hand, if somehow you speed up the old machine 1000 times and play the match, then the new program in the new machine will win. Slowing down or speeding up are equivalent to changing the time control, and now it is clear that different engines are best at different time controls.
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