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Subject: Re: latest Arasan test suite

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:15:00 05/16/03

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On May 16, 2003 at 11:11:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 16, 2003 at 10:06:32, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>Following is a test suite of positions from recent Arasan games (there is an
>>another, older collection ("arasan2.epd"), available at
>>http://www.arasanchess.org/tests.zip).
>>
>>This one is a bit harder overall than the arasan2 test suite. Currently Arasan
>>itself gets around 32-35 right at 60 seconds per move on a fast machine
>>(XP2500+).
>
>Are all the position tactical position or there are some cases when the reason
>for the right move is positional?
>
>In other words do you expect programs with only material evaluation to solve all
>of them if they search deep enough?
>
>Uri

I can add that every positional problem is tactical problem if you search deep
enough but when I say tactics I mean to tactics that can be practically proved
by programs.

Uri



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