Author: Jonathan Parle
Date: 00:26:56 01/14/02
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On January 14, 2002 at 01:04:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 13, 2002 at 23:11:50, Jonathan Parle wrote: > >>Ed, >> >>Your response helps explain (at least to me) why I have specifically always >>found your programs to be the toughest of all to play against (along with >>Richard Lang's) at fast time controls. I notice this advantage tends to >>dissipate with increased time controls - to the point where a lot of the >>programs seem to me to be fairly similar in strength - just with differing >>playing styles. > >No > >There are better programs in comp-comp games also in blitz. > >Genius was the best some years ago but it is not the best today even not in >blitz. > >Century4 is better than Genius but is not known to be number 1 in blitz. > >I cannot explain why do you find Century and Genius better than other programs >if you have the other top programs of today. > >Uri I was referring to my own games against the programs rather than comp vs comp. So I would attribute this to my playing style. I concur with what you say regarding comp vs comp. However, just because player A, B and C share a similar rating, doesn't prevent player C from walloping player A in a 10 game match and player C getting walloped by player B in a ten game match. Some players of similar rating simply find they have difficutly against particular opponents of a similar rating, but not others. I think this is what is happening here with my human vs comp experiences. I just find Ed Shroeder's and Richard Lang's programs much tougher blitz opponents than, say Junior or Fritz, regardless of what the published ratings say.
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