Author: Guido Schimmels
Date: 05:10:55 09/18/98
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On September 17, 1998 at 16:51:18, Thorsten Czub wrote: >there is NO excuse for the nunn-test. >the nunn test was, so says css itself, done by nunn for css. he has done it >specially for his friend frederic. >frederic is owner of chessBase. > >it is the same when the owner of malboro asks a special cancer-doctor to write >an article about smoking not beeing dangerous. > >you now quote anywhere that smoking is not dangerous because john nunn has said >this. > >and frederic paid for this... brilliant. In the very same article Nunn is citated as not even having turned on the computer when he selected the positions. He just put together a few positions he found interesting, he said. Thorsten, do you want to say Nunn did lie in this respect ? The Nunn-test is as much flawed as all the other tests. For a start, the sample is way too small. And even a test made of 10,000 positions won't help until we know how to extract a "representative sample" from the "chess-space". Fritz5 doing good at this test may mean a thing or not, but that's not the only kind of test where it does so - not a big surprise to the CCC-audience Fritz5 doesn't at your own testing ;-) - Guido -
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