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Subject: Re: Tony's positional test suite

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 08:09:27 01/17/01

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On January 17, 2001 at 06:25:04, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 17, 2001 at 05:28:37, allan johnson wrote:
>
>>On January 16, 2001 at 20:09:53, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Here are the remarks that describe the actual positions:
>>>http://home.interact.se/~w100107/pos.htm
>>>
>>>It also gives the names of the annotators.
>>
>>Dann Any suggestions as to why Century3  did so badly [relatively] in
>>the test suites?
>>Allan
>
>Part of the people who analyzed the games are not close to be GM's.
>
>For example one of them Magnus holm has only 2198 fide rating(I searched his
>name in the online database of chessbase).
>
>I think that it is a bad idea to trust this test.
>
>I do not trust even GM's.
>
>I prefer to see a test suite that was generated by chess programs because I
>believe more in their moves.
>
>Uri
>
>Uri

I agree. Why not use these  positions in your suggestion for top engines to
analyze for 24 hours?

Dave




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