Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 22:22:32 11/21/97
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On November 21, 1997 at 14:21:11, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote: >Hi Mike, > >you wrote: >>Thanks for the feedback guys. But I still have questions. IS a test like >>this truly ojective? Are they equal positions which eliminate poor or >>excellent opening books? > >Any of this kind of tests should be played with opening book *off*. >Else it makes no sense at all. > >The aim of thematic playing tests (which I used as student and CSS hobby >journalist a long time ago) is to get some insight into a programs >playing strenth as well as playing style. > >This kind of test is as "objective" as any :-) insofar as you have to >know what you are looking for. > >A lot depends on searching for appropriate positions: do they have some >exemplary value and are not just accidential samples. > >If you succeed in getting the appropriate positions I think in a 20 >positions test (40 games) you might be able to learn more and faster >about new porgrams than with any other testing method - knowing enough >about the testing positions (pawn structure, various possible key moves >and plans, skill in developing advantages and leading those to won >attacks or endgames etc). >It would be like one big fingerprint-test for programs. > >I have just begun developing such a test of my own and would like to >invite the whole group in discussing the positions I will post here >soon. > >And I would be glad if those who have two computers with equal or very >similar hardware could have these play some (autoplayer) games with >these test positions. > >Who would be ready to do so if time allows it? > >More soon. > > >Kind regards from Dirk I have twin P150s, and I would be willing to do a few, if you can tell me how to get autoplayer to start in the middle of a game. The thing works so differently with various programs it's nearly unusable for me even starting from the beginning of a game. I have CSTal, Rebel9, MChessPro 5 and 6, Genius5, and Hiarcs6 DOS. This last I can't test, since I haven't been able to find my master disk since my kitchen fire in August, and although I doubt it was in the kitchen, I cannot install it to my 150s until I find the disk. I also have Fritz5, Shredder1, Chessica, The King 2.54, and CM5k, but I don't know how to make any of them work with autoplayer. kp
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