Author: blass uri
Date: 22:25:36 01/15/99
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On January 16, 1999 at 01:12:08, allan johnson wrote: > Over the past few days I have put some chess positions to Rebel10, >Chessmaster6000 and Fritz5.32 to solve.The positions came from Eric Schriller's >book "The Big Book Of Combinations" and involved positions arrived at by Chess >players over the past 70 odd years or so.Many of the positions which the >programmes could not solve weren't, according to Schriller, really very >complicated yet for the most part the programmes came up with passive moves.This >indicates to me that chess programmers have still got quite a way to go before >their product sits solidly in the grandmaster category.Am I being unfair in this >assumption? Bythe way the positions I selected were the ones that Zarkov, the >programme Schriller used,could not solve >al johnson Are you sure that the solutions are right. I have not the big book of combinations but I know from experience that humans often make mistakes in books. Uri
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