Author: Uri Blass
Date: 17:45:23 12/10/05
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On December 10, 2005 at 19:39:12, Zappa wrote: >On December 10, 2005 at 18:08:10, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On December 10, 2005 at 17:51:53, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >> >>>that sounds good. Do these books force the programs to play a wide sample of >>>openings (e.g., like nunn2?? >>>best >>>Joseph >> >> >>Hi Joseph, >> >>have a read through this: >>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/conditions.htm >> >>Regards, Graham. > >To be honest, I really consider CEGT to be a rapid TC list. Any tester with >good hardware will be running 20 minute games with ponder off, so its about 20 >times quicker than tournament games . . . > >anthony How did you get factor of 20 Suppose average game is 60 moves. 120 minutes/40 moves is translated to 180 minutes/game(practically it is even less than it because in tournament you may have 120 minutes/40 moves+1 hour for the rest of the game). 20 minute/game with ponder off is translated to 20/1.5 minutes/game with ponder off so even after this calculations you get 180/20*1.5=13.5 Note that 20 minutes/game with ponder off suggest hardware that is 3 times faster than PIV 2 ghz Uri
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