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Subject: Re: New Endgame Test Suite

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 13:54:01 12/03/01

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On December 03, 2001 at 16:20:44, Steffen Jakob wrote:

>On December 03, 2001 at 12:38:34, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2001 at 06:35:30, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>
>>>On December 03, 2001 at 06:32:12, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 03, 2001 at 06:28:23, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 03, 2001 at 03:49:49, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Version one of my endgame test suite (50 positions) is finally ready for public
>>>>>>consumption.  It can found at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~peter/eg_test/eg_test.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The web pages need a bit of work, but hopefully they will do for now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks to everyone who contributed positions, analysis, ideas etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>PET005 and PET006 seem to be the same position.
>>>>>
>>>>>Greetings,
>>>>>Steffen.
>>>>
>>>>Yes, but different color to move!
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>Oh, sorry! I didnt look at the color because I saw that in both positions b3 was
>>>the best move :-)
>>
>>Ah yes, I thought that was kind of amusing.
>>
>>How does Hossa do on the test?
>>
>>At 60sec/position my program gets 23/50, for 190 points out of a possible 500.
>>So not a greatly impressive result, although I have no idea how other programs
>>do.
>
>I get 15/50 :-(
>
>I like this test suite a lot... a lot of work to be done.

Glad you like it Steffen, I put a lot of effort into creating it!
I had to stop myself from modifying LambChop to try to solve each new position I
found, otherwise I would never have finished creating the test suite :-)

>
>Thanx,
>Steffen.



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