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Subject: Re: Positions of known value?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:38:21 07/25/00

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On July 25, 2000 at 14:12:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>It would be nice to make a change to your evaluation function and get immediate,
>accurate feedback.
>
>So my idea is to get a huge collection of positions of known value (i.e., "white
>has a stronger position") and then see how well the known values correlate to
>the evaluation function's scores.
>
>Does anybody have any ideas for getting a high-quality collection of such
>positions? Or any comments on this approach in general?

On my ftp site, project Apocalypse for CAP has an analysis of about 7000 EPD
positions.  You could take any subset from that set as a basis.  There are about
5000 or so which are definitely verified, so I suspect you could use them.
However, there are also some where the bm does not agree with the pm or the am
is the pm.



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