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Subject: Re: computer chess test positions

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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