Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 13:43:30 10/17/99
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On October 17, 1999 at 14:12:05, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >>I have the book Isolated Pawn: Theory of Chess Middlegame. >> Some of the examples are easily bustable, e.g. the analysis >> was not computer-checked at all, because there's some move that goes +7, >> but White misses it, then Black misses defending >> against it, then White misses it again, etc. > >Quite a generic statemnt. Could you post which please? It was generic on purpose, because the producers should go through the entire set and test them all! The first position that I noticed this problem in was the first position I entered into a program. It is Benko-Filip from Wijk aan Zee 1971 (page 19, example #8 in the book.) Play through the given solution and count how many tactical errors the players make that go unannotated. There's even an exclamation mark given to a weak move. I tried a couple of other positions, I don't remember which. The outcome was similar, and I chalked it up to shoddy workmanship. >>I would like to know if they have checked the actual content for errors this >>time around. It was clear from the book that they haven't done this much >>before, because it looks like errors were propagated from analysis back in the >>60s directly into the book. Needless to say, I was not impressed. > >Well the program is not only that, of course there are tutorials, there is a >database and now a playing program. > >I think that some of the contents of the tutorials were updated after that some >of it was published in (paper) books, but I don't think they have changed much >of the chess content rather improvedd the english text (not sure). The English in the book wasn't very good, but I didn't care too much -- I didn't buy it for the English, and it was understandable enough. People purchasing training software might care, though. Dave
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