Author: Harald Faber
Date: 02:15:13 03/01/99
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On February 24, 1999 at 12:41:55, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>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? > >The more positions from mainlines, the more impact a good book will have. > >If i remember well the original idea was to play *without* book, >and that's not the case here. all positions from Nunn are in the >book, so the best book still wins there. If you turn however book >*really* off in so many positions, then i'm sure f5.32 will get >crushed instead of crushing others. ?? I thought it was how to play the Nunn test and how it was played, setup the Nunn position, turn off the book and let them play!?!?? >The best test of a program is to see how it performs at the world championships, >regrettably only 7 games next world champ, but those games are >the games which count. I see it different. >Crafty has well prepared with a 16 processor system or something, >diep is well prepared with a 4 processor system (thanks Bob!), >K6-3 seems very fast, so does the PIII-500. > >Let's see what happens in paderborn! Correct, speed isn't everything.
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