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Subject: Re: Some positions from last week analyzed at very long time control

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:24:44 03/15/00

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On March 14, 2000 at 13:56:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 14, 2000 at 03:49:27, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>[snip]
>>No this position is not correct, neither the others.
>>Why not double check? -:)))
>>
>>[d]corbits1/epd5/should2/be6/double2/checked1/8/ w - - acd 64; acn -999999999;
>>acs 500000; bm double_check; ce d o u b l e c h e c k
>>k i n d r e g a r d s  B e r n h a r d;
>
>None of these are my positions.  They were all posed by someone else.  Actually,
>I am getting pretty annoyed at bogus EPD positions.  I think, from now on, I
>will only analyze those posted by persons I know are capable of producing a
>correct one.  I have spent several machine-days of wasted time on this crap when
>those same machines could have been analyzing CAP data.
>
>I'm rather disgusted.

I suggest to look at the positions before giving the computer to analyze them
for a long time.

You can recognize bogus EPD positions if the suggested move is illegal or if it
is clearly illogical.

You can guess for example that sacrificing a rook for nothing when you do not
see material or initiative for it is illogical.

Uri



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