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Subject: Re: What is the best positional test for chess programs ???? ANYBODY KNOW??

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 06:02:23 04/21/99

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On April 21, 1999 at 08:55:29, blass uri wrote:

>>Wishful thinking. :-)
>>(Because you can't be objective, no problem)
>>I admit sometimes I am impressed about the way Junior plays dynamically and
>>starts to create chances and possibilites to get out of a bad position.
>>At the moment I think Hiarcs7 is the best program concerning results against
>>humans and programs.
>
>I think that crafty16.6 may be the best program against humans and programs.

MAYBE. Crafty made a big step forward!

>It won 2.5:.5 against Rebel10C in 1 hour per move games and ed told us in the
>rebelboard that it had a won position in the 4rd game that was lost.

You can't convince me with 2.5-1.5 results or so, give me more.

> MCP and Rebel, maybe the King may be better against humans
>>but they are weaker against programs.
>
>I do not agree that the king2.61 is weaker against programs.

Sorry, you are right.

> It is not good at blitz but I do not know about bad results of it against
>programs at tournament time control.
>Uri

Up to now; hopefully CM6k continues performing well against other TOP-programs.



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