Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:54:59 06/03/04
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On June 03, 2004 at 14:46:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >On June 03, 2004 at 14:36:25, Andrei P wrote: > >>I remember reading somewhere a story how at some tournament there were 5 strong >>GMs on a beach and Fischer approached them. He was asked if he could solve a >>chess puzzle that they had solved in a few minutes. Fischer tried and could not >>solve it on the spot. then he left and came back later with the solution, happy. >> >>The GMs were just joking because none of them could solve that puzzle. Does >>anybody recall the source of this story and what exactly was the puzzle? >> >>on a related note, are there any tactical chess problems that were tested on >>GMs? I am curious how well the engines will solve them. I keep hearing >>statements that the top engines are 3000 elo tactically, but have never seen any >>human calibration data. > >Pretty much every tactical suite was invented by GMs and then we use computers >to try to replicate the results obtained by the humans. Most test suites have a >few small flaws in them. No There are test suites that are clearly based on comp-comp games. see the arasan test suite. Uri
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