Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 10:41:39 01/01/06
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On January 01, 2006 at 01:25:15, stuart taylor wrote: >On December 31, 2005 at 22:30:27, Keith Ian Price wrote: > >>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, > >would really? or just slower? > > >>but it would find the solution to most test >>positions, and help analyze positions from Grandmaster games. >> >>kp > >But if he can only put full efforts into one of them, which should it be? Or >should his efforts be split? I think that most programmers spend the bulk of their time working on the tournament version, but they know what changes they could make quickly to improve the other two. So you would get what you want, and the blitz players and analysis fans would get an improved engine for their purposes. kp
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