Author: Steve Maughan
Date: 02:45:46 01/16/99
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I have The Big Book of Combinations and it is an excellent source of tactical position that many (all?!?) computer can not solve. I am not sure that all positions are 100% correct bit most are! Steve Maughan >> 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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