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Subject: Re: Now nothing positional test?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:04:12 12/28/02

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On December 28, 2002 at 10:45:29, Torstein Hall wrote:

>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

The poster claimed that he does not care about knowledge so this position is not
supposed to be a test if the program has a lot of chess knowledge.

I do not believe that chess knowledge is a disadvantage because without chess
knowledge you may have no ideas where to extend.

Uri



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