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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