Author: Steve B
Date: 10:49:46 02/24/05
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On February 24, 2005 at 12:39:31, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. fair enough thans Dann for your thoughts Steve
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