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Subject: Re: chessmaster is the best at tactics!

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:10:45 11/01/98

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On November 01, 1998 at 20:57:46, Reynolds Takata wrote:

>On November 01, 1998 at 14:12:22, Torstein Hall wrote:
>
>>I think that on the tactical sde, there is no on like Fritz 5!
>>The following pos. is a nice illustration.
>>
>>r4r1k/2q2ppp/1np1b3/p1b1pNB1/2B1P3/8/PPP1Q1PP/3R1R1K w - - 0 19
>>
>>The winning move is Nxg7!
>>
>>On a AMD k6 200
>>J5: Not found in 5 minutes
>>F5: Found in 55 sec.
>>H6: Not found in 5 minutes
>>Crafty 15.20: Not found i 5 minutes
>>
>>
>>Torstein
>
>Chessmaster is the strongest program tactically, and if you check the Louguet
>suite on the combinative portion chessmaster will outscore any other program.

You should take the LCT test with a grain of salt. It is very easy to have a
huge score in the combinational part by increasing recapture and check
extensions.

But this weakens the overall program strength, as it is the case with
ChessMaster.


    Christophe



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