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Subject: Re: Fischer solving tactical puzzle

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:09:51 06/03/04

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On June 03, 2004 at 14:54:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>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.

That's why I said "pretty much every" instead of "every"




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