Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:05:55 09/07/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 15:29:05, Mike S. wrote: >I'm not sure if these positions can give us a good comparison. I don't think so. >They seem not to have the necessary testing character, or key move including a >sacrifice (or abstainig from taking material, or exchanging an obvious >positional disadvantage for something else or the like). > >In other words, these are "normal" moves not really suitable for testing and >performance comparison IMO. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl The fact that the positions are normal positions does not mean that they are useless for comparison. noraml positions are exactly the interesting positions to see if top programs of today find better moves or worse moves than Deeper blue. using tactical positions like the nolot positions is not important because nolot positions do not happen in games when normal positions happen in games I believe that test suites incluide too much tactics and a better test should have positional moves that programs need hours to find. Unfortunately at least 3 of the 4 positions do not include positional moves that Deep Fritz needs hours to find unless the moves are different than Deeper blue's moves. Uri
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