Author: Martin Slowik
Date: 01:58:30 09/14/04
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Hello Sune, I found your discussion with Bob very interesting and enlighting, even more so (but not only :)) because my approach to chess programs seems to be similar to yours. A couple of weeks ago I tested all my engines in a double round robin tournament starting with a line of the Leningrad Dutch (1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nc3 d6 6.Nf3 0-0 7.0-0 Qe8 8.d5 a5). First of all it was fun to watch those programs struggling in the same murky positions I usually find in myself. :) But then I obviously wanted to know which program to trust most when analysing those positions. Do you think you can guess which program won that tiny experiment? Well, to make it short: 'twas Shredder (followed by Hiarcs), great surprise, hm...? ;) Looking closer at the positions revealed that in many of the games the endgame abilities of the participants played a crucial role, to say the least. So may I ask you, how do you test the middlegame abilities of your candidates? And, is there perhaps a web page of yours with some test results? Best, Martin
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