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Subject: Re: The "hard testpositions" were posted May 2001

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:07:13 05/24/03

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On May 24, 2003 at 18:46:53, Pierre Chevalier wrote:

>On May 24, 2003 at 18:12:48, Matthew White wrote:
>
>
>>>>It's time to see chess engines 2 years later can understand these testpostitions
>>>>especially the 10 hardest ones.
>>>>By looking at 170,212 post you will see the results of 2 years ago.
>
>>It took me a while to find it...
>>http://fortuna.iasi.rdsnet.ro/ccc/ccc.php?art_id=168519
>These positions are all openings situations--hardly the area of expertise
>for a computer.  Would you criticise a computer that could not solve
>these perfectly?  This material should all be book material.

This is an open question if all the material is correct and
I think that book position are not bad test position because programs should be
able to play well also without book.

I do not think that computers are relatively weak in finding good moves in the
opening.

Uri



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