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Subject: Forget testsuites (one good example) !!!!

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 02:35:26 02/12/99

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On February 11, 1999 at 19:12:04, William H Rogers wrote:

>You make a good point there, in fact Larry Kaughman (?) published a set of
>problems in his Computer Chess Reports a few years ago. He had about 30 problems
>and a formula for calculating a chess programs stregth, based upon the lenght of
>time it took to find the solution.
>He stated that he had tested the results, and they were very close.
>So it can and does work.
>Bill

With 30 positions? Not possible! After 15 years in computer chess I think
it's impossible to measure strength by testpositions. One good example:
Phalanx solves testpositions about 10x faster than Crafty, but still loses
about every game in actual play!!



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