Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:39:31 02/24/05
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On February 23, 2005 at 20:44:36, Steve B wrote: >. >> >>I felt pleasure when my favorite engine did well. > >but would have felt pleasure if you were simply watching and not operating >because your favorite engine did well > >or did you feel more pleasure or more intense emotions because you were >operating and if so ..why?? I think that there is a little more drama. The others in a correspondence tournament see only 23 .. Qxb4+ but you see the eval changing over time with fail highs and fail lows. >as far as i understand a good operator is one who basically does nothing to >interfere with the program in any way >even moving the mouse could interfere with CPU utilization With correspondence level, the last ply takes half the time and that ply will be 4 hours or so. The loss from a mouse movement is insignificant. I only watched the program think for 1/2 hour or so in the evening when I left and perhaps for a few minutes in the morning if it was still running when I came in. I let the program think overnight on a timer of a certain number of seconds corresponding to about 8 hours of time calibrated for some standardized machine. >is it the fact that your name appears somewhere as the operator? I don't think that part is important. I am very sure that without this message nobody (except Dr. Hyatt perhaps because I pestered him with emails during the contest) would remember who ran crafty in KKKUP II or even that such a contest even took place.
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