Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 19:30:27 12/31/05
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On December 31, 2005 at 19:42:44, stuart taylor wrote: >On December 31, 2005 at 18:43:38, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On December 31, 2005 at 16:07:00, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>Blitz is SO unimportant, to the value of a chess machine, in my opinion. >>> >>>If you think you are better at blitz than your computer, or that it has no >>>useful experience to offer you, when you play it, (compared with what others >>>give), OK! If you like to analyze a position, but after set-up, you can't >>>possibly wait more than five more seconds to see what analysis the computer >>>shows, OK! (I'd hate to think what your opinion is about todays computers, as a >>>whole!) >>>But any other reason, I can't see what there is to feel "disturbed" about, if at >>>slightly longer timings, it is better than any other program around. >>> >>>If it was the strongest program only at 20 hours a move, I'd also understand it >>>might be a bit disturbing. It would not let you think about anything else during >>>the day! >>> >>>But at normal human thought periods, if it gives the best analysis or plays the >>>best moves for a machine, I don't think anything should be done to compromise >>>this. If blitz takes away from the above, in any way (and I WOULD be disturbed), >>>then I'm not concerned about the blitz at all. >>>S.Taylor >> >>You are entitled to your opinion so please allow me mine. I wouldn't care if >>the engine exploded when reaching 3 minutes on one move. >>Jim > >If you feel THAT strongly, then I would be disturbed too (if a new good engine >didn't live up to it's standards in blitz, too)! >(but I was only afraid that programmers should not be bogged down, because of >blitz, so as not to hurt MY self interests, if it would. e.g. if one year it >didn't get very strong, but in blitz it was a great success, then the programmer >might think...anyway, "it's worthy of release because of its blitz". >But for you, that's just fine!) >S.Taylor I think all engines should be released with two versions; one tuned for blitz and one for tournament. After all there is a WCCC Blitz Tourney now as well, and using the Blitz version would be good advertising. Make that three versions--also one for analysis, which would perform a lot more extensions, which might make it weaker in play, but it would find the solution to most test positions, and help analyze positions from Grandmaster games. kp
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