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Subject: Re: new Arasan test suite

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:21:29 12/11/00

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On December 11, 2000 at 14:40:12, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On December 11, 2000 at 10:03:19, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>I've been building a small test suite for a while based on positions
>>from Arasan games. Recently I took a closer look at this, weeded out
>>very easy and very hard positions, and a few where I wasn't sure there
>>was a clear right answer. Then I added some more positions from recent
>>games. So now I have a condensed version with 70 positions, which follows.
>
>Thanks, for posting the interesting test suite.
>
>>Arasan is now getting about 30 right at 60 seconds/move on a PIII/733
>>with 16MB hash. Crafty 17.6 got 48 right on the same machine.
>
>Compared to this, I get a surprisingly well result with my current version
>of Yace. 52 right. AMD K6-2 475, 30 MB hash. Of course, it is possible, that
>some solutions will be "lost" at longer search time.
>
>>3r3k/6p1/7p/1N6/2pP4/p3PbP1/R4P2/5K2 b - - bm Rd8; id "arasan2.11";
>
>Do you mean "bm Rb8" here?

Surely it must be, as a glance at the digram will reveal:

[D]3r3k/6p1/7p/1N6/2pP4/p3PbP1/R4P2/5K2 b - - acd 22; acn 660178447; acs 1000;
bm Rd8; ce 93; id "arasan2.11"; pv Rb8 Nxa3 Ra8 Ra1 Ra5 d5 c3 Nc2 Rxa1+ Nxa1
Bxd5 Ke2 Bc4+ Kd1 Bd3 Nb3 Kg8 Nc5 Bb1 Kc1 c2 e4 Kf7 e5;



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