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Subject: Re: Did Fritz cook the Nunn tests?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:43:14 02/24/99

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On February 23, 1999 at 11:55:42, blass uri wrote:

>It seems that they cooked Fritz5.32 to win the nunn test games.
>This proves that the nunn test does not prove nothing about the strength of
>chess engines because it is a known test.
>
>I suggest another test based on the positions after the 10 move of black in the
>last category 18+ tournament.
>Uri

Me and Peter Stahlhacke are constructing an alternative Nunn-test with 152
positions all over the ECO codes. They are the most popular opening lines played
by >11,000 computer games and we effort to take equal positions where both sides
have chances.
It would be great if some others would do the same with human games out of the
ChessbaseBigbase or so. Volunteers?



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