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Subject: Re: What do you consider the best positional program (besides Century 3)?

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 18:14:12 05/03/01

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I wonder if it is already a clear and solved issue the question of what its is
"positionally good" in Chess Computer behaviour. I believe there are too many
supositions in this field, beginning with the pretended positional acumen of
Century. No that I say it have not, but it seems there is a penchant to suppose
"positional" those programs that at the same time are supposed to heavily
knowledge gifted. This last matter is also debatable. Even more, the positional
test are also worthy of some discussion. Anyway, you can see with any program a
great abysm between his results in those positional tests and his real
positional behaviour in a real game. When you see childish mistakes or
apreciations of the board, when dynamics is the key to understand and they ust
put in operation a bigger or lesser box of tricks, then you cannot put in
jeopardize so much faith in a test of this kind, no matter how good could be for
other purposes.
Fernando



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