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However I'm afraid, the tactics part of it is a bit outdated.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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