Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 09:28:01 08/19/04
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>>Isn't there in "normal" engines condensed code in terms of knowledge that you >>would like to add but the cost in kn/s is too high, knowledge that you know is >>sound, but it will not work for your engine in practical play at popular time >>controls? > >If it will not work at popular time controls then I do not know that it is sound >and has no bugs unless I do a lot of testing. It is my understanding that search depth and speed becomes inreasingly more and more important, the shorter the time control is. Therefore i assumed that adding knowledge that might speed things down and even slow down the search depth, would result in counter productive play at faster time controls. maybe i got that all wrong? >> >>My suggestion was not to cramp in all the knowledge at once, but to gradually >>add the knowledge to the extend where you might even see an increase of strength >>in 40/2 20/1 30 min for the rest games, but a decrease in strength in blitz and >>rapid games. > >I see no reason to assume that some knowledge that is counter productive at >blitz starts to be productive at 40/2 hours. It was more the other way around, that what might be productive for longer TC's might be counter productive far fast TC's, please see above reply. >Tests may prove that it something is productive at long time control but the >same testing time to prove it can be used to find different improvements that >are relevant for all time control so I do not think that it is smart to spend >time on this testing when there is a good chance that the results will show that >the change is counter productive. > >Uri What i mean is: if someone that has developed a chess engine have made considerations towards having it play as good as it can at different time controls including blitz and bullet even, then if this person was to remove those considerations and not pay any attention to the faster time controls, when developing his engine further, could it have a positive effect at long time controls.
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