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Subject: Re: computer chess test positions - Please post as .EPD

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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