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Subject: Re: Need for Improvement in the Set of Nunn Test Positions?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:05:10 08/29/98

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On August 29, 1998 at 11:46:12, Robert Henry Durrett wrote:

>
>QUESTION:  How good is the currently available set of Nunn positions?  Does the
>above concern that "the Nunn tests usually requires that the winner takes the
>initiative and therefore might favour some programs above others"  represent a
>significant problem, or is this relatively unimportant?  Is there any ongoing
>activity somewhere to continuously improve the set of Nunn positions?


The positions are actually quite good...  however, once they become "known"
they become pretty well useless, because it is definitely not difficult to tune
for positions once they become "known" and once the positions become "important"
the likelihood of this happening only goes up...

I have no idea if this has been done, but probabilities are... :)



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