Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:52:58 10/31/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 17:58:04, Joachim Rang wrote: >On October 31, 2005 at 17:33:36, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On October 31, 2005 at 17:10:10, William Kerr wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>If you had the choice of running one top program on a CPU that ran at 3x speed >>>or three different top programs each running on one CPU at x speed. Which would >>>be better for analysis or game play. In the 2nd case one could vote on the >>>choice of move if two out of three programs pick the same move. >> >>Take the scenario with three engines and run it three times as long. Then you >>have the best of both worlds (long time analysis and different opinions as >>well). >> >>As for your original problem: >>Sometimes the first will be better and sometimes the second. > >I would always opt for the second for analysis. One engine is not capable of >understanding all positions of chess (even not Fruit) ;-). I prefer to go into >the variations and see how the different engines "react". That gives me soon a >clue which engine has the best perspective and I can set up a long time >analysis. That will usually be better. But there will also be cases where the problem is solved by all three engines in 19 plies and no engines in 18 plies and you have only allotted time for 18 plies.
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