Author: allan johnson
Date: 16:14:54 01/17/99
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On January 16, 1999 at 20:44:01, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: >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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