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Subject: Re: Fischer solving tactical puzzle

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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