Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 17:44:01 01/16/99
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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 If you post the positions as .EPD files, we can take a crack at them with other programs - or at least see what you are speaking of. It would be nice if you used the "id" field to key the problems to Schiller's book, and use the "bm" field to indicate the key moves that Schiller gives. for example: 8/krK5/p7/P7/6P1/8/7Q/8 w - - bm Kc8; id "BBOC.283"; Regards, Richard
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