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

Author: blass uri

Date: 06:15:56 04/21/99

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On April 21, 1999 at 09:02:23, Harald Faber wrote:

>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.

It is probably 3.5:.5 because ed said that crafty was winning the 4th game.
It is not a clear proof but I have not more games of crafty at slow time
control.

Ed will continue the games after WCCC and we will see.

Uri



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