Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 11:20:29 06/28/04
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On June 28, 2004 at 12:43:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 28, 2004 at 12:37:42, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>On June 28, 2004 at 08:54:00, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >> >>>settings, and then N games with the new settings. I am only really interested >>>in longer timecontrols: 20 min + on an Athlon 2.0G or so (70 min on P-650, etc), >> >> >>Why long time controls? I thought you could test evaluation with shorter time >>controls, search needed longer (or varied) time controls. Am I out in left >>field? >> >>Dan H. > > >My personal belief is that longer controls are better. Short games rely heavily >on the search, and leaves a better chance for random luck to influence the >outcome. Deeper searches tend to make fewer tactical mistakes, leaving the >outcome to the quality of the evaluation.... I don't think so, the randomness of tactical shots which is certainly present in short time controls will be distributed according to the strength of the search _and_ evaluation of the engines. I see no reason to believe that on shorter time controls _random_ luch should play a significant role. regards Joachim
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