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Subject: Re: Now nothing positional test?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 07:45:29 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 09:45:02, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>[D] 8/8/pp6/2pp2p1/3p2Pk/3P1K1P/5PP1/8 b - - 0 1
>
>Ruffian is the best analysis-engine I can think of.
>Ruffian 1.0.1 (96 MB hash)on Athlon@1.6Ghz finds the mate in 13
>in 5 sec (Yes 0:05!!) . This is amazing.
>hey you out there with your 2.8 Ghz Xeons and Deep Fritz 7 engines.
>Try to beat that!
>hope Per-ola will bring out a native Chessbase version of this great program
>soon because there exists some problems with UCI version in Chessbase GUI.
>I would pay 25$ for a native CB engine.
>I dont need chess engines with much positional knowledge for analysis. every
>chessplayer >2200 has much more positional knowledge than all chess-engines
>together.

Is this position a good test to see if a program has a lot of chess knowledge?
The faster its solved the position, the less it knows about chess...?
No, I think I must be wrong, probably is something with extending the right
lines. etc. etc. But the idea fasinated me, that there may be positions that is
best solved just counting material....

Torstein

Torstein



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