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Subject: Re: A Great New [?] Idea for Testing Chess Computers

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 12:12:21 10/22/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 15:08:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 14:57:23, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>On October 22, 2002 at 13:29:45, George Sobala wrote:
>>
>>>On October 22, 2002 at 11:25:02, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 22, 2002 at 11:15:29, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am constantly hearing about how HIARCS is the most positional program as
>>>>>opposed to Fritz which is supposed to be one of the fastest and less intelligent
>>>>>as far as chess knowledge.
>>>>
>>>>I am constantly hear it and constantly do not believe it.
>>>>I believe that people say that hiarcs is more intelligent only because of the
>>>>fact that hiarcs prints less nodes per seconds.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>It is purely subjective I know, but when following live games between GMs at
>>>classical time-levels, Hiarc8 appears to more often predict (in its "top three")
>>>the move actually played.
>>
>>You have a really neat idea there!  [A way to identify the most "human-like"
>>chess computer] Select fify or 100 excellent games played between the top GMs in
>>the last year or two.  Then let each chess computer have plenty of time [at
>>least 5 minutes per move] to deliberate over each of the positions in those
>>games.  After all is said and done, then the Chess Computer which predicted the
>>largest number of GM moves "wins" and is declared some sort of "champ."
>>Ideally, find a sponsor with lots of money!  [Preferably several million
>>dollars.]
>>
>>Bob D.
>
>I think that predicting more GM moves does not mean better positional
>understanding.
>
>part of the GM's need to learn about chess to be at the level of the top chess
>programs.
>
>Maybe a better tournament may be between humans to predict moves of chess
>programs.
>
>Uri

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Maybe in another ten years.

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Bob D.



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