Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:28:52 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 18:11:35, Peter Kappler wrote:
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>Dann,
>
>For those of us who aren't familiar with your project, can you give a brief
>summary of what you're doing, and what is special about these positions?
The Chess Analyis Project is a systematic examination of board positions. Thus
far, we have examined about 1/2 million board positions at 12 minutes of PII
300MHz time equivalent or more. A detailed explanation of the projects is found
at:
ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm
The positions in question arise from a widening of the standard openings
experiment. We have already analyzed, in detail, every position from the
encyclopedia of chess openings as detailed in the PGN file that comes with
EXTRACT. However, recently, I have done some explorations for catalogs of
standard openings and expanded the size of the set to almost double its previous
size. Some of these standard openings are obsolete, and some are extremely
popular but not even named! Paul Onstad was very helpful in this regard. With
the original set, any position that had a ce of greater than 100 centipawns has
already been pounded at long time controls. These new additions have not. The
sort of questions we can answer from these examinations are:
0. Are there any tactical blunders in opening "x" that can cause me to lose the
game by following standard book moves?
1. Opening "y" has been abandoned. Is there a sound reason?
and things of that nature. There are some additional experiments running that
are not in the FAQ also. I am examining all positions in the first "n" plies
(only to ply 3 right now, and I don't think I will bother with going beyond 5).
I have also analyzed the most fabulous games ever played {according to some
opinions}.
At any rate, that particular batch of positions comes from "Standard Chess
Openings" as cataloged by ECO or Paul, and which are also extreme in centipawn
evaluation after 12 minutes. I would like to give them a harder pounding to see
if anything changes for any of them, since they are obviously very important.
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