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Subject: Opinion of a book...

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 16:58:34 10/20/99


Hi - I just got the book, 'Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess', by Danny
Kopec & Hal Terrie.  It looks like a pretty cool book, which includes the
so-called, Bratko-Kopec test for earlier chess programs.  My questions are,

1. Is this still one of the best test for chess programs. (Are there now better
test positons?).

2. Who is this book intended for - Chess player's who are trying to improve
their understanding of thematic or importent chess positions, or Chess player's
who want to test their programs, or both.  Maybe this is the first book intended
for the market of, 'computer's trying to improve their game' -:)

I've only been looking through this book for a short while, but I'm very
impressed.  It looks like a very well-written book of 'drill material', with a
lot of explanatory text.  Still, I'm much interested in other's opinions...

Larry - the chess software/book addict!




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