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

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 11:00:48 10/23/02

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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 would modify this to be " predicting the winners moves closest"


Ed



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