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Subject: Re: Test suites vs. playing

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:22:26 03/16/00

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On March 16, 2000 at 01:34:06, Jouni Uski wrote:

>For me personally performance in test suites is more important, than playing
>strength. Because I am not GM I can't play against them. So about 80% of my
>computer use is test positions. And I removed even Junior 6 from my hard disk,
>because it's too weak to find combinations or endgame moves...
>
>Jouni

Don't you play chess yourself? If so, you'd have enough games to look at and let
a strong program look over your moves. In such games there is no deep tactics
that LG or Fritz find and Rebel or MCP don't.
And in such games where there is no deep tactics, I definitely prefer positional
sound alternatives and suggestions from MCP, Shredder, King, Junior and Rebel.

So you should do it both ways. First run Fritz over the game to search for a
tactical hole and then run one or more of the other programs for move
suggestions which are better according to the position on the board.




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