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Subject: feeling the need for speed

Author: Joseph Ciarrochi

Date: 12:49:44 12/14/05


hi folks

(i hope you will tolerate my simple question. i am not a programer, but am
interested in how chess programs think...I'm a research psychologist)

With humans, the best blitz players have the most knowledge. This is because
pattern recognition is much faster than deliberate search

But i get the sense that it might be the opposite for computers? ARe the most
knowledgable programs (e.g., hiarcs) expected to be worse at blitz than ones
that are optimized for searchd depth? I have heard that the key to blitz is
simple search depth?

Or have i got it all wrong. Is there indeed a trade off between search depth and
knowledge?



best
Joseph



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