Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 22:29:01 02/09/04
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On February 09, 2004 at 18:24:28, Stephen Ham wrote:
>Dear Kurt,
>
>I'm really happy to see your last post. You've done a wonderful job in educating
>us over the last few years regarding the various strengths/weaknesses of the top
>engines. Your fantastic tournament using Nunn's test positions and the
>tournament using different 1st moves were exceptionally good examples of this.
>
>Now, I'd like to see tournament, played at standard time controls, where the
>starting position is from various endgames (all positions should be
>approximately equal). Each engine would play each side of the position versus
>all the others. This would demonstrate whether engines have indeed improved in
>an area where they are usually considered to be weakest - and humans supposedly
>remain superior.
>
>I thought about doing that test on my computer at home, using various endgame
>positions from my correspondence games. But I've yet to find the time. Does
>running such a tournament yourself interest you at all Kurt?
>
>All the best,
>
>Stephen
Hi Stephen
Running such a tournament would very much interest me but not
at all chessfriend Rolf Bühler who has 4 identical PC's at
his disposal. He has only fun with real tournaments and my
my four (not identical) PC's do not allow tournaments with
a big number of games.
Kurt
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