Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 12:58:03 11/01/98
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On November 01, 1998 at 15:41:09, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >On November 01, 1998 at 14:57:15, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>You can't possibly be basing your entire conclusion on the basis of a *single* >>position?! > >Dan is right. I can claim right now that Nimzo98 is the best tactician of all >because I tried the position with the Internet connection on and Shredder 2 and >Nimzo98 analysing the position at the same time -- Shredder did not find the >right move in about two minutes (as long as I let it ponder), but Nimzo98 was >quick and locked on 1.Nxg7 after 53 sec... evaluating it + 0.98 (AMD K6-II >/300). Hereby I claim that the best tactician of all is Nimzo98... > >This only shows that any test position (for that matter even a bunch of them) >cannot determine whether a program is the best of all in any given area. What >is needed is *the path leading to such positions*. And that is where a GM, or a >computer GM excells. > >Regards, >Djordje I agree with both of you! I was a bit fast to draw the conclusion, but my posts subject was also to drwa some attention! But you have to agree that Fritz 5 is good at tactics, even if it maybee is not the best! Torstein
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