Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:20:03 06/14/99
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On June 14, 1999 at 18:34:00, walter irvin wrote: > there seems to be great concern over which program is stronger. i myself want >the strongest i can get.but alot depends on what you are going to do with the >program? > i wish there were a rating for how good a program was at long term slow over >night thinking. i really believe if there was a separate list for like 3 >different times,you would get three different winners. > like blitz from 5-30 sec move > tourn 3-5 min move > long term 1-5 hours move > >i believe at the slower time limits smart programs such as hiarcs, m-chess, >rebel,would destroy programs such as fritz ect.because the slower programs would >not get caught up in tactics so easy,then it would come down to chess >knowledge,weak faster programs would lose big?????????? Not necessarily. Ed Schroeder's testing shows Crafty to be _extremely_ strong at very long time controls, and it spends a great deal less time in it's eval function than Hiarcs. The new Hiarcs 7.32 seems to be beating Fritz in all speeds of play, fast or slow. Diep just got trashed by Ferret at a long time control, both programs were using the same hardware, and Ferret is known as a fast tactician. I bring up these examples to show that there is no way to tell what will do better where; it seems to be almost random. :) James
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