Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:43:46 08/16/05
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On August 16, 2005 at 17:32:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 16, 2005 at 17:26:28, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On August 16, 2005 at 17:16:33, Paolo Casaschi wrote: >> >>>>I know that usually when program improve they improve in all time controls. >>>>I do not know of evaluation changes or search changes that make programs weaker >>>>at blitz but stronger at long time control. >>>> >>>>In thoery it can happen but I need to see a proof for it and I believe that >>>>fabien mainly test in blitz time control(he can correct me if I am wrong) >>>>because usually productive changes in blitz of adding knowledge to the >>>>evaluation are also productive at long time control. >>> >>>Do you have any proof or evidence that there is some correlation between blitz >>>strenght and slower speed strenght? >>>If you dont, then we can only compare assumptions and I tend to agree with Bob >>>Hyatt since the same non-correlation is evident with humans and because common >>>sense... >> >>There is definitely a general correlation between strength at blitz and strength >>at standard time control. However, there are also exceptions to the rule. >> >>For instance, we will expect Fruit to be stronger than Golem at blitz, in the >>same way that we would expect Kasparov to clobber me at blitz. >> >>On the other hand, Mike Valvo overperforms at blitz, and Amy used to >>underperform badly (it was mostly due to bad algorithms for time management at >>fast time control). > >Amy had bugs in the time management algorithm and I specifically talked about >programs without bugs. Then you are talking about no programs because all programs have bugs. >I think that usually the difference in relative strength between blitz and long >time control is small at least if we do not talk about programs that support >parallel search. In general, I am quite sure that you are right.
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