Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 01:50:14 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 04:26:45, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 02:39:44, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On February 22, 2002 at 16:10:44, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>The next version of Chessmaster is going to have an exercise in which you are >>>required to remember a position and then set it up on an empty board. Your >>>thoughts on designing this exercise would be appreciated. Here's what we have >>>now: >>> >>>Beginner -- 4-8 pieces (men), always a legal position >>>Intermediate -- 8-16 pieces (men), always a legal position >>>Advanced -- 12-20 pieces, completely random (and possibly illegal) position >> >>I don't think this should be random positions. >>These more random and less chess the position is, tyhe differences between the >>advanced and the beginner will be smaller. >> >>I think you should get this position from real games to ensure that the position >>is logical so that chess-memory is tested/trained. >> >>Odd Gunnar > > > > >And who wants to memorize illegal positions ? > I read somewhere about a test with players on this theme. I don't remembere where (Tisdall?). The result was that with illogical position even GM's had a hard time to get good score. But soon the positions where logical the difference between beginners and GM was much bigger. The GM's was getting high score but the beginner stayed with the same low score. So my point was an answer to John Merlino's new function in Chessmaster that its better let the positions be logical to get a more accurate test/exercise. Odd Gunnar
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