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Subject: Re: assembly--not really that fast

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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