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Subject: Re: some old results

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 08:55:14 05/11/01

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On May 10, 2001 at 16:21:36, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On May 10, 2001 at 14:39:57, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On May 10, 2001 at 07:48:10, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>>However I'm afraid, the tactics part of it is a bit outdated. It had been more
>>>interesting in the 80486 ages. With today's hardware, all of the tactical
>>>positions are practically solved by everybody.
>>>
>><snip>
>>
>>I agree to everything you have written - nevertheless I think it is good to
>>leave the test as it is to be able to compair - and _maybe_ someone suddenly
>>posts some _old_ results of a few years ago ( I'd be THRILLED ! )
>
>I hope, that this is of some interest ?
>Unfortunately, I only have the total sums, which the veterans had reached. So I
>can't tell you how they did nr. 14 or so. IIRC, most of them had been obtained
>by readers of the English magazine "Selective Search". But I'm not sure.
>It's just a few pages from one of my old folders containing xeroxes of this and
>that. I think, I still have a few more.
>
>Uli

Yes , it is - thank you very much !

If you manage to find some more ...

It looks like : the slower the hardware the better the correlation to say the
Swedish list , so the Kaufmann test might have correlated quite well with USCF
ratings in the past .

Sounds logical to me - the tactical ones used to be difficult .

pete

PS : Do _you_ know why Comet does so well in this test ( and want to tell ? ) ?




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