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Subject: Re: ECE #9

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 22:14:35 03/18/99

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On March 18, 1999 at 11:41:11, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On March 17, 1999 at 06:55:58, Steffen Jakob wrote:
>
>>I also dont understand ECE #9. It doesn't matter what black plays. He is lost...
>>ECE doesn't seem to be very usefull for automatic endgame testing. Any comments?
>>
>>Greetings,
>>Steffen.
>
>Could you please post the EPD string for ECE #9?

8/2P5/1K6/3r4/8/8/8/k7 b - - bm Rd6+; id "ECE3.0009";

>	I do not know how good is ECE to test the engines's endgame. I would suggest

It's not very good. The positions are interesting for humans but not for
automatic testing.

>playing from interesting endgame position arisen in grandmaster games, both
>sides, against other engines or strong humans. I think that is more revealing
>about the engines strengths and weaknesses in the endgame than any testsuite.

Yes, but it takes a lot of time to collect those positions :-)

Greetings,
Steffen.



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