Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:19:21 06/21/02
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On June 21, 2002 at 09:56:27, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >I think the problem of most composed positions is that they >usually present very unusual positions which are exceptions to >a general rule and such. > >In practise, those positions won't happen, and the general >rule (which is the one that is in the chessprogram) will work. However, the crazy composed positions have two big advantages: 1. They are great fun (I wonder where leo has gone)? 2. They stress possibilities (e.g. your move generator cannot handle more than 150 generated moves and a position has 218 so BOOM. Better to find out now than in a WMCCC[1]). [1] Murphy's law *always* surfaces at these contests. If you have a bad book line, it will surface. If you have a serious bug, it will present itself.
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