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Subject: Re: Proposal: New testing methods for SSDF (1)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 10:43:11 04/13/98

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On April 13, 1998 at 13:20:44, Mats Winther wrote:

>We live in the positional era of chess when "good chess" is
>defined as positionally refined chess. Then it is obvious that
>Fritz5 plays less good chess than certain others (drawn from a
>large amount of games).
>But I take it that you regard tactical trickery as "good chess" too?
>But isn't it better to use the traditional definition of "good chess".

If you buy a chess program and use it, good chess is whatever amuses
you.

For purposes of the SSDF list, good chess is what gets a program a "1"
instead of a "1/2" or a "0".

bruce




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