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Subject: Re: Best testsuite (sure it's not WAC)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:33:44 06/07/01

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On June 07, 2001 at 10:52:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 07, 2001 at 06:41:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On June 07, 2001 at 05:52:51, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Yes I know all test suites are almost useless to finds the best playing chess
>>>software. But still, which suite is the less bad in your opinion? If You can
>>>only use one test suite before starting real games, which suite will you select?
>>>Is it still LCT II?
>>
>>Following Bruce Moreland's recommendations, I'd have to name ECM.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>
>I don't like ECM as it has _way_ too many errors.  The "modified" version
>might be reasonable.

I don't see why the errors matter.  So I fail on those, big deal.  If I run WAC,
I get the same number every time.  If I run ECM with more time, I'll find more
solutions.  To me this means that if I make the program better, I'll find more
of them, which is what the suite is supposed to show.  The suite has 879
positions.  I think that well over 700 of them can be found, although I don't
have an exact number.

bruce



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