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Subject: Re: What would be better for analysis?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:54:15 10/31/05

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On October 31, 2005 at 18:05:22, stuart taylor 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.
>
>This is an extremely typical kind of cool "Dan Corbit" answer!
>
>And if you have all 3, I wonder if it will cover what a human can think up.

I doubt it will include all possible human answers (e.g. some of the Nolot
positions are still very difficult for computers).



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