Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 13:54:20 09/14/04
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On September 14, 2004 at 14:53:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>I found that the swiss IM Bela Toth scored 9/11(7 wins and 4 draws) in the
>first board of the olympiad.
>
>For me it is a very surprising result.
>
>I know that very good results are possible because a lot of players do not use
>computers for many hours per move and I did +7 =3 against weak opposition in the
>preliminary olympiad board 6 but I thought that similiar result is impossible
>against first board of the final(not the preliminary olympiad).
>
>It may be interesting if most of the wins of Toth were achieved by blunders that
>the top programs can avoid after a long time(at least it was the case for most
>of my wins when I did +7 =3 in the preliminary olympiad)
>
>Uri
No pain, no gain: in correspondence chess it is often
a matter of time you invest in choosing the next move.
Bela Toth has perhaps worked for 20-40 hours per move, his
opponents much less on the average and this is sufficient
to win games with slightly better positions. BTW, it's
not very economical to let programs run for many many
hours for a single move. I prefer to investigate all
sound looking moves as deep as possible by trying out
all possible continuations. In this way you get much
faster good results. Just my thoughts.
Kurt
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