Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 13:49:38 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 15:33:41, David Dahlem wrote: >One of the problems with the current method of testing engines with test suites >(e.g. WM-Test) is the problem of proving that the proposed solution move is >actually the best move, especially with positions of a positional nature. >Perhaps a new method would avoid this problem, namely a suite of mate positions, >with known, more easily proven solutions? Time to solution could be the criteria >by which engines are evaluated. > >Just an idea. Any thoughts? Would this work? > >Regards >Dave All the people here with strong engines (Bob, Vincent, GCP, me) are all saying: test suites don't cut it. However, it would be an interesting experiment to make a test suite with 1/2 tactical moves that win and 1/2 tactical moves that lose, e.g. a promising sac that needs to be avoided. anthony
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