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Subject: Re: I played 4 games against Zappa 2.0b tonight if anyone wants to see

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 07:25:36 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 06:18:31, A. Cozzie wrote:

>Zappa is not really that great at blitz.  In fact before the WCCC I did a test
>at 5+0 vs Fruit and Fruit won 75% - and I was using 2 processors for Zappa.
>
>However at 15+5 that score was reversed (of course I was still cheating there :)
>
>The reason is that Zappa concentrates on getting a deep search by an efficient
>branching factor, not pruning/big nps, so it needs some time before it begins to
>outsearch opponents.  It is a serious chess engine, not a blitzer.
>
>anthony

Bob stated in some posts that a parallel search needs some time to "stabilize"
which means it can be weaker in blitz. Do you think this is related to your
phenomenon? Was it a joke that Fruit got 75% in 5+0 but only 5% in 15+5? I can't
imagine such a difference.

regards Joachim



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