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Subject: Re: World-wide chess analysis project: Call for participation

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 05:55:35 11/18/98

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On November 17, 1998 at 22:59:05, Dann Corbit wrote:


>A. How many games were resigned from a clearly winning position?
>B. How many openings from the ECO classification have one side down by at least
>three pawns when the formation is fully developed?
>C. What percentage of great moves were simply never seen, even by intense
>computer analysis using a variety of programs?
>D. What kind of positions are the most difficult for computers to properly
>solve?
>E. What kind of positions are much harder for humans to solve than computers?
>

Who cares?  At best, some of this information may be interesting, but
useful?  Knowing how many games were resigned from a clearly winning
position is going to help me in an OTB or computer chess game?  Not
hardly.  Same for the rest.

>Really, the possibilities are endless -- limited only by the imagination of
>those who wish to use the end product for research.
>
>For more information, by all means, read the C.A.P. FAQ.
>ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm
>It also comes in Word97 document format:
>ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.doc
>And rich text format:
>ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.rtf



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