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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Tournament Calendar ...

Author: Robert Henry Durrett

Date: 07:03:03 06/23/02

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On June 23, 2002 at 04:13:47, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On June 22, 2002 at 19:51:02, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 2002 at 17:43:47, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On June 22, 2002 at 15:30:23, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi Bob,
>>>
>>>please visit the "Computer Chess Tournament Calendar" !!
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>
>>>CC-Calendar on Frank`s Chess Page:
>>>http://www.amateurschach.de/directory/calendar.htm
>>
>>
>>Very nice!  Bookmarked it.  Will study it later offline.  Hope some of them are
>>annotated.
>>
>>Thx.
>>
>>Bob D.
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>I work now 4 years on this database and edit much games.
>But all games are annotated (must delete comments).
>
>Best
>Frank


A large collection of annotated games is a wonderful thing!!!  Especially if
have 4-years worth!

Annotated games are MUCH more valuable to me than unannotated ones, especially
if the annotator is a GM.

I, too, strip out the annotations on occasion for special purposes, but that is
done only to a copy.  I still keep the original annotated game.

Someone making a suite of test positions [from a collection of computer chess
games] might use the annotations to help identify the potentially most useful
positions in the game.

That would be an early step.  Next would be to see if various popular engines
had any difficulty with each candidate test position.  If not, then the position
might be discarded as being of no value.

To me, it seems obvious that the person making test suites would be better off
with a large number of different kinds of strong chess engines, each running on
it's own computer, simultaneously.  But who could afford that???  Letting people
here at ICD CCC put the position on their machines seems a more practical
approach.  The only down side is that you don't get very many positions examined
that way.

In my [human] analysis of GM games, I like to make an unannotated copy for me to
analyze independently before I examine the annotated games.  Similarly, for
games annotated by Fritz overnight.

Bob D.



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