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Subject: Re: Are programs more equal with long thinking time?

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 05:52:07 12/15/99

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On December 14, 1999 at 23:38:55, Christophe Theron wrote:

>I think that playing with long time controls gives results much closer to 50%
>than playing with short time controls.

I played a game Nero 5 versus CM3000 giving them 15 minutes for a move.
Nero managed to keep it even for a long time. In short time controls
Nero would soon lose material, because CM calculates the tactical figures
much deeper. But with 15 minutes/move Nero also got enough time to see
the tactical threats, until there finally occurred a position having "too
many moving parts" for Nero and it did one stupid move and began to loose
material.

Thought CM3K could calculate 4..5 plies deeper than Nero, it couldn't
find anything to kill its opponent. (With short times CM's ability to
go to deeper depth is fatal to Nero.)

					Jari





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