On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Hideki Kato <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Kahn. > > Kahn Jonas: <[email protected]>: > >Zen19n is using ZenAuthor's 8-core Mac (same as Zen19), > >whereas > >Zen19s is using gghideki's small cluster (same as Zen19d). > > > >I think Zen19s is also using slightly more aggressive time management. I > >mean making use of all that time she has. > > Zen19N, Zen19D and Zen19S share the same time management code but > Yamato has intentionally set Zen19N to use less than 15 seconds for > every move, though 30 seconds can be used. > Sometimes that actually works to the advantage of the computer because the person playing does not have the luxury of shifting gears between moves and can feel pressured to play faster. I know that when I play chess I tend to use the opponents time differently than my own time, using my imagination more and calculating less and thinking more of strategy than tactics. It's a well known technique used in chess when you are clearly losing the game you can occasionally swindle the opponent by playing quickly. Your only other reasonable option is to resign, so playing quickly is not consider bad manners, it signals that you know you are losing and do not wish to drag the game out but that you want to just play a "few more" moves anyway. (It's sort of like a mental transition from knowing you are losing but not quite willing to resign just yet.) But the opponent can relax too much, starts playing fast too, and sometimes he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory with a blunder. I don't know if that is what Yamato is doing, but it would be an interesting experiment - see how the computers pace affects human players. Don > > Hideki > > >Jonas > > > >> Hello, > >> currently two versions of Zen are playing in the > >> computer room of KGS: > >> > >> Zen19s: 20 min games, version 7.7d9 > >> Zen19n: 20 min games, version 7.8 > >> > >> Is the version number the only difference, or > >> is there more? > >> > >> Ingo. > >> > >> PS. In the last few days my mailprovider "gmx" > >> has started to put some of the computer-go mails > >> automatically in the spam folder. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > >> belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Computer-go mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Computer-go mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > -- > Hideki Kato <mailto:[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >
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