HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: stojanov@husc10.harvard.edu (Milan Stojanovic)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Fischer - Spassky: The Prize
Date: 3 Sep 92 23:22:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep3.192231.15352
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1992Sep3.182204.17591@midway.uchicago.edu> hau4@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Just a little thought:
>
>We have learned that the prize fund of $5M was offered by a certain Serbian
>"businessman". I don't recall any information on what his "business" is. 
>
>You should be aware that the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia
>(R.I.P., 1943-1991) was a Communist state, and that the self-proclaimed
>Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e., Serbia and Montenegro) is dominated by
>former Communists, without much change in laws regarding property and 
>business.
>
>As I lived in the SFRY until graduation from college in 1989, I can testify
>that it was not possible for anyone to make $5M legally (and this gentleman
>must have made a lot more if he can give away that much).

The businessman worked abroad.  So the rest of your text is worthless.

>
>[For the would-be flamers: I can repeat the above under oath, so don't 
>challenge it unless you can do the same. What follows, however, is just an
>educatewd guess, so whatever you comment on it, there is no need for further
>discussion.]
>
>It seems plausible that the money comes from illegal sources. It is quite
>possible that it comes from a pre-war illegal business, but as war is an ideal
>background for making huge illegal profits, it is quite likely that this
>money came from (a) weapons smuggling, (b) trading goods from looted Croatian
>and Bosnian houses, or houses (those not burnt) themselves, (c) managing army
>or irregulars' funds, possibly including the money collected from Bosnians for
>a permission to escape, (d) simply getting an allowance from the government in
>return for some war management services, or (e) any combination of the above.
>
>If any of this turns out to be true, Fischer and Spassky could, in addition
>to obstructing the sanctions, be charged with complicity in money laundering.
>
>	Sven
>
>P.S. As many of you remember, I was the first to speak on this net against
>this match, and still stand by that 100%. However, I am not boycotting any
>information about the match, as some people suggested we should do. I see no
>point in refusing to learn of something. I will be going over the games,
>although I doubt that they will be as interesting as, say, Kasparov's games.
>But I also hope that Fischer will face trial when he returns to the U.S.A. -
>being a celebrity is not a licence to break the law. If he doesn't face trial,
>I'll be forced to admit that those who say Mike Tyson would never have been
>convicted if he were white, do have a point. (I presently believe they are
>wrong.) BTW, I think Fischer can successfully plead insanity and avoid going
>to jail, but if he was assisted by a lawyer (any info?), that lawyer should
>probably be disbarred.
>
>I know too little about French laws to even guess what will happen to Spassky,
>but I know that he is perfectly mentally healthy and has no excuse for what he
>is doing.
>
>
From: Michael_Ledet@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Michael Ledet)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Review: Knightstalker
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:58:07 GMT
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

Chris Long writes:

 

>For example if I want to study endgames by playing against KnightStalker

>I just load my Pandolfini's _Endgame Course_ or Fine's _Basic Chess
Endings_,

>pick a position and go to it.  If I lose, I can then compare what I

>did with the book line.  It's fantastic!  If I want to study tactics

>or mates, I can load either of my versions of Reinfeld's _1001_

>books and pick a problem.  If I want to do another, I just click on

>another.

 

 

Could you please post where you found these programs for Knightstalker,
along

with the prices and any other programs available.  Thanks in advance.

I already have the Pandolfini book in print but would like to get the
computer 
version as well.
{~r{w'w3mW

-- Via DLG Pro v0.992
From: robertl@cwi.nl (Robert van Liere)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Marshall - ask Fischer
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:20:04 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam


> Judging from the first game, Fischer didn't seem to be too worried about
> meeting the Marshall, but I don't recall ever seeing Spassky play it (I might
> be wrong).  Anyone who says it's no big deal that Fischer's playing again
> should consider that he might have some answers to questions like this one...
Spassky used to play the Marshell very often between '65-'69 as
a drawing weapon. Consider the following example :

   Fischer-Spassky, Santa Monica 1966

 1.	e4	e5
 2.	Nf3	Nc6
 3.	Bb5	a6
 4.	Ba4	Nf6
 5.	00	Be7
 6.	Re1	b5
 7.	Bb3	00
 8.	c3	d5
 9.	exd5	Nxd5
10.	Nxe5	Nxe5
11.	Rxe5	c6
12.	g3	Nf6
13.	d4	Bd6
14.	Re1	Bg4
15.	Qd3	c5
16.	dxc5	Bxc5
17.	Qxd8	Raxd8
18.	Bf4	h6
19.	Na3	g5
20.	Be3	Bxe3
21.	Rxe3	Rd2
22.	Nc2	Te8
23.	Rxe8+	Nxe8
24.	Ne3	Bf3
25.	Bc2	Nd6
26.	b3	Kf8
27.	a4	Ne4
28.	Bxe4	Bxe4
29.	axb5	axb5
30.	b4	Rb2
31.	g4	Kg7
32.	Kf1	Kf6
33.	Ra5	Rb1+
34.	Ke2	Rb2+
35.	Kf1	1/2
-- 
Robert van Liere, Department of Interactive Systems,
Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Kruislaan 413,  1098 SJ  Amsterdam,  The Netherlands
email: robertl@cwi.nl | tel: +31-20-592-4118 | fax: +31-20-592-4199
From: regan@acsu.buffalo.edu (Kenneth Regan)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Game 2: a good endgame to try a computer on?
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:31:50 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci


It looks like Spassky escaped by the skin of this teeth several
times in the last fifteen moves:  (game score copied from post by "ben".)

>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 c5 6.dxc5 dxc5 7.Qxd8 Kxd8
8.Be3 Nfd7 9.Nge2 b6 10.0-0-0 Na6 11.g3 Nc7 12.f4 e6 13.Bh3 Ke7 14.Rhf1 h6
15.e5 Bb7 16.g4 Rad8 17.Ng3 f6 18.Nce4 fxe5 19.f5 Bxe4 20.Nxe4 gxf5
21.gxf5 Nf6 22.Rg1 Rxd1+ 23.Kxd1 Bf8 24.Nxf6 Kxf6 25.Rf1 exf5 26.Rxf5+ Kg7
27.Rxe5 Bd6 28.Re4 Bxh2 29.Ke2 h5 30.Re7+ Kf6 31.Rd7 Be5 32.b3 h4
33.Kf3 Rg8 34.Bg4 h3 35.Rh7 h2 36.Bf4 Rf8 37.Bxe5+ Kg6 38.Ke4 Kxh7
39.Bxh2 Re8+ 40.Kf5 Ne6 41.Kf6 Nd4 42.Bd6 Re4 43.Bd7 Re2 44.a4 Rb2
45.Bb8 a5 46.Ba7 Rxb3 47.Ke5 Nf3+ 48.Kd6 Nd2 49.Be6 Rb4 50.Kc6 Nb3
51.Bd5 Rxa4 52.Bxb6 Ra1 53.Bxc5 a4 54.Bb4 a3 55.c5 Nd4+ 56.Kd7 Rd1
57.Bxa3 Nc2 58.c6 Rxd5+ 59.Bd6 draw


This looks to me the perfect kind of tactical endgame position to
run a 20-ply singular-extension search on.  Can DT II or Hiertech or anyone
with a strong machine find out if Fischer missed a win?  (I don't have 
time to look for it myself. :-)  Of course, this would fuel
Fischer's arguments for outlawing adjournments in matches.


-- 
Kenneth W. Regan           			Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.				(Opinions not < SUNYaB)
SUNY at Buffalo, 226 Bell Hall			Tel.: (716) 636-3189, -3180
Buffalo,  NY  14260				regan@cs.buffalo.edu
From: elkies@zariski.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Correction! (Bishops and Queens)
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:46:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Aug27.164647.15162
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard Math Department

In article <14507@mindlink.bc.ca> Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper) writes:
>Why is it cheating to have a position where retroanalysis proves whose move it
>is?  This is precisely what's involved in the Bishop wins - Queen loses
>problem.

Well, that's not too hard actually; for instance

...b....
........
....p..p
....p.nR
.....k.K
....p..Q
....P.PP
.....B..

White has no legal last move, so it must be his turn, and 1.Qg4 mates.
Make the Bf1 a Queen, and Black is in check so must have the move, and
1...Nf3 is double check and mate.

--Noam D. Elkies (elkies@zariski.harvard.edu)
  Dept. of Mathematics, Harvard University
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From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: fischer match coverage
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:39:34 GMT

ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel) writes:

>Telechess has an advertisement in the August issue of
>Inside Chess.

>Average call two minutes.  $2.00 per minute.  Touch tone phone.
>Under 18 requires parental consent.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   I wonder if the people who are offering this have also offered other
services using 900 numbers  :)
From: bill@myope.cvs.rochester.edu (Bill Vaughn)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: SD tournaments
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:01:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: galileo.1992Sep4.180124.14212
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY

In article <199209041314.AA09509@snert.ikp.uni-koeln.de> budelsky@ikp.Uni-Koeln.DE (Dietmar Budelsky) writes:
>
>Hello, reading the discussion about SD, I found it seems to be
>a problem of the rule book. There it seems to be difficult to
>understand. I'm no american, so I don't know the exact text, but
>the idea for the rule is quite easy:
>
>If the player, whose time didn't fall has   a n y   way to win
>from the current position, he wins the game. It can't be distinguished
>between helping mates (I don't know, if this word translation from
>German is the right terminus in English) and only slight errors, the
>fellow with fallen clock can make in future positions. The mate in 1
>rule means only, that the mate position is constructed through legal
>moves from the position at fallen clock (no stalemates between). The
>TD has to claim a win for the player.
>
>The only real problem, the rule book has to solve are theoretical
>remis constellations as KNN vs K. Here, it is possible to construct
>a win, but the game would last 50 moves if noone looses his flag.
>
>Dietmar Budelsky (1769)
>Institut f"ur Kernphysik, Universit"at zu K"oln, Germany
>budelsky@snert.ikp.uni-koeln.de  

Assuming the rules are updated accordingly:

With a "Fischer clock" (and there seem to be at least two varieties)
neither you nor the TD would ever have to go through this execise i.e.
if your flag falls YOU LOSE even if you have KQ v K. If you find yourself 
in a 50-move rule situation, you have 100 minutes+ to find the mate
or offer the draw; if your flag falls YOU LOSE. If your opponent's flag
falls HE/SHE LOSES. It's simple, as it should be.


--
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From: jhc@ivan.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Subject: sneaky Nimzo-Indian?
Reply-To: jhc@iris.brown.edu.uucp (James H. Coombs)
Organization: IRIS - Brown University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:20:43 GMT

Does anyone have recommendations to this back-door Nimzo-Indian?

1. d4	d5
2. c4	e6
3. Nc3	Bb4

Typically, Black plays 3...Nf3 here, in response to which I play 4.cxd5
for the QGD Exchange.  I haven't worked up the Nimzo-Indian, and I have
been planning to play the Catalan instead: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 etc.
So, I am not pleased to have Black play 3...Bb4.

In the most recent game, I played 4.Nf3, which happens to be ECO D31/2.
I also played an early cxd5.

I see nothing wrong with 3...Bb4.  As far as I can tell, if I want to
play the QGD Exchange, I just have to be prepared for a transposition
into the Nimzo-Indian.

Any suggestions?  --Jim
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From: nolan@helios.unl.edu (Michael Nolan)
Subject: Re: CJA Awards
Reply-To: nolan@helios.unl.edu
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:24:17 GMT

mzabel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mark A Zabel) writes:

>In article <nolan.714753581@helios> nolan@helios.unl.edu writes:
>>
>>In recent years, the judges have included GM Larry Evans and IM Eric Schiller.
>                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Whoa!  That isn't right is it?  I certainly don't mean to be critical, as
>he is a much stronger player than I, but I am curious.

Oops, Eric is an IA, but not an IM.  (I think he is a FM, though.)
My apologies.

Mike Nolan
From: gm26@prism.gatech.EDU (MCMURRAY,GARY V)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Spassky Game 2 Result
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:55:19 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Game 2 was called a draw after 59 moves.
I will post the moves in a little while!!!

-- 
MCMURRAY,GARY V
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gm26
Internet: gm26@prism.gatech.edu
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From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: Bobby still #2?!?!?!?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 00:04:04 GMT


2785 was Fischer's record high.  He lost points against Spassky in F-S '72,
so his current rating must be lower.
From: holcomg@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Gordon Holcomb)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Still a loon after all these years  Was: Fischer Spits!
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:33:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

In article <benwood.715369504@milton> benwood@milton.u.washington.edu (Ben Henwood) writes:
>
>According to UPI via Clari News Services today, Fischer had received
>an order from the US Treasury Dept. prohibiting the match.  In his first
>press converence in 20 years, Fischer pulled the order out of his 
>brief case and spit on it.
>
>Other interesting tidbits:  he refers to himself as world champion;
>he said he intends to reside in the US after the match; and he said he
>is unlike any other chess player in the world, refusing to use teams
>of experts and computers like the 3 Ks, whom he referred to as the 
>lowest dogs around.
>
Fischer keeps saying the most foolish things.  In addition to the
above quotes he also is quoted in the USA Today as saying that the 
K-K matches were fakes:

"Every move in every match is prearranged, even the blunders we saw to
give it a facade of reality"

and how about:

"Communism is Bolshevism is Judaism"

He is also claiming that this match is for the world championship
and that he is defending his title.

FISCHER IS STILL A LOON AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

I hope Spassky crushes him.

Gordon
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From: jph@hardy.u.washington.edu (Jeff Hanson)
Subject: Balkans
Organization: Very little
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:44:48 GMT

	"The center is the Balkans of the chessboard; fighting may at any
moment break out there."

	 - Aron Nimzovich, 'My System' (page 170, McKay edition).


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From: hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt)
Subject: Re: Contempt factor (was: Re: chinook)
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:24:59 GMT

In article <2a9fd03fwnr070@ark.abg.sub.org> ralf@ark.abg.sub.org (Ralf Stephan) writes:
>hyatt@cis.uab.edu (Robert Hyatt) writes:
>> 
>> Most programs don't manipulate this number.  In Cray Blitz, we always leave
>> it at zero.  Changing it affects the game in bizarre ways.  For example,
>> setting it to +2 pawns makes the program play passively, always trying to
>> repeat previous positions to force a repetition....
>
>It happened in a micro chess world championship that the French authors of an
>unknown program set the factor to +4 pawns when playing against allmighty
>Mephisto.  Soon they had a piece more (bishop?) and a won position, but
>because of the factor managed only to draw.
>
>--ralf


Ken Thompson will recall that in the 1983 computer world championship final
round, he set the contempt factor to - 1+ pawns when he played us because he
had already drawn with Nuchess and h felt that they would win their final
round game and he couldn't afford a draw or loss with us.  We got into a
position where Belle was forced to repeat a position for the second time
or else lose a queen for two pieces and two pawns (loss of 1 pawn in
material).  Belle thought that the repeated position (possible draw by
repetition) was worse than dropping the pawn and ended up in a forced
loss.  In our testing, we have seen similar things and always set the
draw score (contempt factor) to 0.00000000000.......  making it anything
else results in "funny" (depends on which side you are playing as to what
"funny" means) moves from time to time.  We elect to leave it alone...

Bob


-- 
!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !
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From: wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick)
Subject: Re: Boycott
Organization: Self-similar
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:06:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.013157.24190@tamsun.tamu.edu> sharring@cs.tamu.edu (Steven L Harrington) writes:
| In article <1992Sep1.204826.12408@afit.af.mil> wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick) writes:
| 
| >Which _basic principles_ of human rights have been violated in this case
| >and where are they defined and agreed to by the nations participating
| >in the UN sanctions?  Mr. Fischer has no _right_ to play chess wherever
| >he pleases.                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| >^^^^^^^^^^
| 
| This is so laughable to a libertarian like myself, that I hesitate to
| respond... What are governments for? Clearly, according to Will Bralick, 
| they exist to dictate what (supposedly) free-thinking individuals like
| Fischer, you, and I can do...

Et cetera.  Yawn.  The only thing more tiresome (and predictable) than 
a ``free-thinking'' libertarian is an Objectivist ;-).  I am sure that 
nobody is interested in yet another round of the libertarian-conservative 
debates so I will keep it short.

If one argues that chessplayers have the Right to Play Chess _wherever 
they want_ then one has to assert whether the Right is conditional or
unconditional.  If one asserts that the Right is unconditional (and thus
more important than, e.g. suffrage) then one must demonstrate the mechanisms
which should be established by Government to ensure that this Right can
be exercised without restraint.  If the Right is conditional then there
must be a mechanism for determining the extent of this Right.  This
mechanism is politics.  Why it seems that the exercise of politics has 
resulted in Mr. Fischer not enjoying the Right to Play Chess in Serbia.

| This reeks of totalitarianism - except in cases
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Extremism in the rhetoric of libertarianism is no surprise.

So you argue that Mr. Fischer has the Right to Play Chess _wherever he
pleases_.  For example, at my house -- with or without my permission.  
Don't I have any private property rights?  Mr. Fischer does not have the 
Right to Play Chess _wherever he pleases_ because it may please him to 
Play Chess at my house.  It is tyrants like Mr. Harrington who seek to 
deprive us of our private property rights.


Trivia question: which American president was the first to send 
American troops into a conflict on foreign soil?

         answer:  Thomas Jefferson in 1801 (Tripolitan-American War).


Best regards,

-- 
Will Bralick                          |  If we desire to defeat the enemy,
             wbralick@afit.af.mil     |  we must proportion our efforts to 
             bralick@cs.psu.edu       |  his powers of resistance.
with disclaimer;  use disclaimer;     |               - Carl von Clauswitz
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From: bwatkins@nyx.cs.du.edu (The God of all machines)
Subject: Re: F-S II, game 2 update (3:41 EDT)
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 00:18:29 GMT


Of course J. Polgar isn't playing--1.  Those events are usually segregated
by sex, and the Polgars don't like that;  2.  She has everything to lose
and nothing to gain--she's rated way ahead of the other competitors.

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From: ron@osf.org (Ron Birnbaum)
Subject: Re: Boycott
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:02:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.125926.5831@newshost.unh.edu>, sjk@kepler.unh.edu (Stephen J Kenny) writes:
|> I hereby encourage all individuals thinking of boycotting
|> the F-S re-match to do the following:
|> 
|> Boycott oil companies dur to ozone depletion from auto emmisions...
|> Boycott comsmetic companies for unethical treatment of animals...
|> Boycott your parents for the emotional scars suffered during
|>  the horrors of childhood..
|> 
|> Get the idea?

 I don't believe any of the above have any sanctions against them from the U.N. 
 or any other body. I don't believe that of the above have set up concentration
 camps to murder their opposition races. 

 Get the idea?

|> Have a nice day.

You too.

-Ron

|> -------------------------------------------------------------
|> "Away..we go...so fast...."  | sjk@kepler.unh.edu     
|>         	- Autosexual | s_kenny@unhh.unh.edu      
|> 	       Be Bop Deluxe | Stephen J. Kenny   
|> -------------------------------------------------------------
|> 
|> 
|>
From: Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Promoting to a B
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:55:10 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

The solution posted seems to work, although it isn't nearly as convoluted and
bizarre as what we came up with years ago.  Maybe that says something about the
way chess was played in Vancouver in the 1970s...

If I find the position or can reconstruct it, I'll post it.  I'm pretty sure
neither King was in check, so if you want to try it with that as a condition,
you may get over the 10 minute mark.

(And this problem is not, and never has been, a "ruse".)
From: albert@HPLWK.HPL.HP.COM (Joseph Albert)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Fischer-Spassky
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:30:01 GMT

>From: jeff@econ.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely):

>Is it possible to orchestrate this so that we could compensate...
>...How about setting a small fee to use ICS during the match...
>...abd by consistently nagging those who fail to pay with a barrage
>of e-mail.

Nice idea, but it is against either the law or internet rules or both
to move data over the NSFnet backbone for commercial advantage.

If Prodigy is carrying to match, the moves will be publicly available
early enough to get timely postings, but real time may be out of
reach for this one. 

Maybe the next world championship match couldbe broadcast real-time
to the net?  Also, how many ICS servers would be needed to carry
the load of users who would want to watch real-time? We woudln't want to
destroy the performance of those machines during a chess match--
after all, the owners of these machine(s) are generously donating
some of the machines resources for ICS.

Joseph Albert
albert@hplabs.hp.com
From: clong@romulus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Review: Knightstalker
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:31:09 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Aug25.194703.6689@cs.brown.edu>, James H. Coombs writes:

> You do say "my" here.  Am I right that you created these databases
> yourself?  that they are not commercially available?  Lot of work if
> so, although perhaps not so bad if you enter them as you work through
> the problems the first time.

I've entered most of Pandolfini's _Endgame Course_ into a database,
along with decent portions of the Reinfeld 1001 books, _Test Your
Endgame Ability_, _1234 Modern End-game Studies_, and _Basic Chess
Endings_.  I don't believe commercial versions are available, and
I haven't released what I've done into the public domain since I
haven't been convinced yet (although I'm willing to be) that it
would be both moral and legal to do so.

Mark Ginsburg remarked in another article that KnightStalker is
weak in the endgame.  This is true (in fact, this is the weakest
aspect of KnightStalker), which is why I mainly use it for simpler
endgames currently.  However, no doubt this will be fixed in the
near future.
-- 
Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618

"In a study of schoolboys, an educator discovered a correlation between size
 of feet and quality of handwriting.  The boys with the larger feet were,
 on the average, older."        Wallis & Roberts, _The Nature of Statistics_
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