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Subject: Re: Email chess/ correspondance chess (engine perfection?!)

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 14:22:44 11/11/04

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On November 11, 2004 at 02:15:20, Derek Paquette wrote:

>I play email chess all the time, aswell as blitz games on the net.  I also play
>engine matches online and this came across.
>
>If someone were to play an email game, say a Grandmaster vs Me, and I was to use
>a computer, and the return move time was say 5 days a piece.  If I were to keep
>Shredder 8 on Infinite analysis for those 5 days per move (say i keep the cpu
>very cool and i give it a few hours of break)
>
>would shredder 8 play a perfect game? or near perfect where the gm would have no
>chance without the assistance of another computer?
>
>I know that the longer the time control the better for the computer but to what
>end?
>
>with 5 days per move, that is 120 hours,(7200min)
>using the starting position as a bench mark for depth vs time, (where shredder 8
>goes 1 more ply after it doubles its time searching)
>
>I calculate on my athlon 1700xp that after 5 days shredder 8 would reach
>....
>
>depth 21 in 27 minutes...knowing that...
>
>depth 22 in 54 min
>depth 23 in 108 min
>depth 24 in 216 min
>depth 25 in 432 min
>depth 26 in 864 min
>depth 27 in 1728 min
>depth 28 in 3456 min
>depth 29 in 6912 min
>
>So basically shredder 8 would reach a ply of 29 in just under 5 days...
>could ANY human EVER beat it EVER? without computer assistance?


Why should a GM not use Computer assistance? You may have a look at
http://www.chessfriend.com

and check the "Computermathc" and "GM Nickel - Hydra" to get a feeling how the
games may go in such a case.

regards Joachim



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