Author: leonid
Date: 05:41:38 04/05/00
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On April 05, 2000 at 05:46:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On April 05, 2000 at 01:31:38, leonid wrote: > >>On April 05, 2000 at 00:44:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>On April 04, 2000 at 23:13:08, leonid wrote: >>> >>>>WAC, BK, BT2xxx - what it is? >>> >>>Test suites. WAC is the essential one. You can get that from any number of >>>places. I suggest searching for them on the web. >> >>I do this in even more simple way. I take by "accident" diferent positions for >>"Chess Life" revue and ask two program solve them. Number of plies to search is >>the same and both do this by brute force. Time found say me all that I want to >>know. > >Is Chess Life a computer chess magazine? You should use test suites that are >designed for computer programs. I will e-mail you a copy of WAC and you can >start using that. Thanks, Tom! Very appreciated. Actually for testing the positions for mate I created many hundreds of different positions and put them on the Web to use for verification. >>>>I can't say nothing about GNU, Crafty and so like since I don't know how to find >>>>their core logic speed when we speek about "positional move". If you speak about >>>>finding mate then mine should lead or be between the leading at least. >>> >>>I'm not talking about speed. The most straightforward way to compare chess >>>programs is by having them play chess against each other. If you play a game >>>between your program and Crafty, how well does your program do? >> >>I do speak about speed. When positional logic will reach speed that I consider >>as good enough I will go into the finalizing of my positional logic, more >>exactly my entire chess program. Only mate solving logic don't ask any >>additional material when it go into work. It can be compared even now. Comparing >>my actual chess program, that is not finalized, to some other that is completely >>done is premature and useless. In positional logic only its basic part can be > >If other chess programs are completely done, why are there so many new versions >of them? > >If you play your program against other programs, you are comparing two works in >progress. I see nothing wrong with that. > >-Tom
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