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Subject: Re: CM 6000 engine personalities tests question

Author: Dan Kiski

Date: 05:30:10 12/15/98

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On December 15, 1998 at 06:19:06, Arda Renkver wrote:

>I have read many interesting postings in here about those tests you guys
>conducting. My question is that if you are just testing the engine strength for
>different settings shouldn't the opening books be turn off in any case.Otherwise
>you get no feeling as to how the "setting" is able to handle a position without
>finding itself in a comfortable situation in which it arrives by using opening
>theory from memory.In this case you only have match results without knowing
>whether or not the result due to opening advantage or disadvantage.Maybe playing
>with a set of predetermined openings with white and black would clear the cloud
>a bit.I believe Mr.Kaufman (IM) used to suggest that a long time ago in print.

This subject has been touched on many many times, I myself as previously stated
use the Nunn test positions from Chessbase.




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