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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:33:57 05/04/01

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On May 04, 2001 at 03:30:12, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On May 04, 2001 at 03:03:57, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>
>>On May 03, 2001 at 18:41:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On May 03, 2001 at 18:37:08, John Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>I had for awhile thought HIARCS 7.32 was considered easily the best, but then I
>>>>read a summary from Cadaques 2000 and it seemed to be thought HIARCS was even
>>>>somewhat dumb positonally. So, what do you think? HIARCS, Shredder 5, Tiger 14,
>>>>Junior 6?
>>>
>>>According to one test suite:
>>>http://home.interact.se/~w100107/fentest.htm
>>>
>>>These are the top ten:
>>>AnMon 5.07 AMD K6-2 450
>>>SOS AMD K6-2 450
>>>Rebel 10b AMD K6-2 450
>>>Nimzo 3 P90
>>>Rebel Gambit II AMD K6-2 450
>>>Rebel Tiger 14 AMD K6-2 450
>>>Nimzo 3.5 P90
>>>Hiarcs 7.32 AMD K6-2 450
>>>Shredder 4 AMD K6-2 450
>>>Phalanx XXII AMD K6-2 450
>>
>>You can also check this test:
>>
>>http://home.bip.net/gunnar.blomstrand/topplista_64.htm
>>
>>This test is from the book "Spiel mit - gegen Grossmeister" by Emil Gelenczei.
>>64 games which all are judged. 1047 positions in 8 categories were every group
>>gets 400 points. The idea is to see which program is best in analysing human
>>games. The time is 40/2 3 min/move. The computer is a Celeron 450 with 128 cache
>>and 64 MB.
>>
>> Program 	 	Rating 	Points
>>01 Gandalf 4.32f   	2617 	2120
>>02 Fritz 5.0 	   	2591 	2099
>>03 Gambit Tiger 1	2590 	2098
>>04 Fritz 6.0 	   	2585 	2094
>>05 Junior 5.0 	   	2571 	2083
>>06 Rebel 10 	   	2561 	2075
>>07 Nimzo 2000 	   	2560 	2074
>>08 Chess Tiger 13  	2540 	2058
>>09 Zarkov 5.0 	     	2536 	2055
>>10 Genius 6.5 	   	2529 	2049
>>
>>As you can see, the Rebel/Tiger programs is on both lists.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Very nice Tony. Can these positions be downloaded?
>
>Finally something else than tactical positions.
>
>Ed

The main problem with positional test is the fact that I doubt if the solutions
is correct.

I think that there should be some proof that the solutions are correct(for
example comp-comp games from the positions after the right and comp-comp games
from positions after other computer moves).

If I see that computer programs perform better after the solution move it may be
an evidence that the solution move is correct.

I do not trust the impression of humans in a lot of cases.

Uri



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