Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 18:32:39 05/06/01
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On May 06, 2001 at 18:27:16, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 06, 2001 at 17:53:02, Heiner Marxen wrote: > >>On May 06, 2001 at 13:12:35, leonid wrote: >>>Weak mate solving capability in professional programs rely (I guess so) on the >>>obvious fact that mate solver is not in demand. There were so many chess >>>championships in the recent years but probably never for mate solvers. If one >>>day it will be changed, abundance of good mate solvers could be first result of >>>this change. >>> >>>Salut from Montreal! >>>Leonid. >> >>A mate solver championship for computers... what an idea ;-O >>Never occured to me. Can't really imagine it. > >Easy to do. > >Here is an idea how to decide about the positions. > >1)play 100 random games of chess(every side plays random moves when the game is >finished only by the 50 move rule or by stalemate or by checkmate > >2)give chess programs the pgn of the games > >3)the problem for chess program is going to be: >finding the number of mate in x when x<=5,6,7,8. > >It is possible that there is going to be more than one champion because it is >possible that the fastest program for solving short mates is not the same as the >fastest program that solves long mates. > >Uri Hello Uri, First I had a good laugh about your proposal, but when I started to really think about it... it is not a bad idea! The "random" could be replaced by something not completely random, but say a simple 2-ply search etc. Just to avoid absolutely nonsense positions. We also will need either a hard time limit, or negative points for the time used or some such. What I still miss in your proposal, is the kind of problems constructed by human problem composers. They tend to contain certain subtleties, which would not occur with random generation. Yet I like your proposal! :-) Really. May be sometime Paul or Leonid (or me? shudder) tries to perform such a tournament/championship, just for the fun. But I do not expect the ICCA or whomever to sanction or sponsor it. But then, it may turn out to be a pilot tournament for something more official... Now I'm sure I'm dreaming :-)) Summary: Yes, it is quite easily doable. Thanks! Best regards, Heiner
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