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Subject: Re: Test position Hydra-Nickel

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:40:52 05/03/05

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On May 03, 2005 at 07:56:34, Thomas Cutter wrote:

>On May 03, 2005 at 04:56:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2005 at 04:45:41, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>[snip]
>>>I read that Arno Nickel used Fritz and Shredder to check variations ...
>>
>>I guess that he also used them against top programs but he lost against them
>>unlike in the game against Hydra.
>>
>
>IIRC Arno Nickel regarded the 6 games against the planets as a kind of
>experiment. He didn't play a particular anti-computer strategy.
>
>In this respect it differs surely from the Hydra-match, where he probably tried
>to find weak points of his opponent. At least in the first two games he was
>successful.
>
>
>Regards  Thomas

In the games against commercial programs he could buy the programs and find weak
points of his opponents.

In the games against Hydra he could not buy hydra so he had no way to play
against it to see if it does not play well some type of positions.

I can add that in the case of the commercial it was not fair what some opponents
did when they gave the program more time to analyze when they did not like it's
move.

Arno Nickel  could probably get slightly better result in fair conditions
against the commercial programs but nothing close to the 100% score that he
seems to get against hydra.

Uri



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