Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:27:19 04/23/99
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On April 23, 1999 at 04:28:50, blass uri wrote: > >On April 22, 1999 at 13:22:56, Dann Corbit wrote: > > [snip] >>"The faster the PC the better it plays" is true for each and every chess >>program. > >Usually it is true but I am not sure that it is true for every chess program. > >I found that Fritz532 made some stupid positional mistakes at 1 hour per move >games in one game against Rebel10C(Ra8,Nb8) and I read that it cannot do the >same mistakes at fast time control. > >It is also possible that some chess program at long time control gets to an >infinite loop and lose on time. Almost surely this is an artifact of a chance position. Unless there is a subtle timing bug, you would get the exact same effect by playing on a slower machine at longer time controls. Some important crushing blow is, no doubt, just beyond the event horizon for the positions in question. If it were played on an even faster machine, it might see past it. I did not mean to say that the computer program will play *every move* better on a faster machine, but rather that it will play better overall unless the program has serious bugs.
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