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Subject: Re: What is the hardest Position from the ECM?

Author: Larry Griffiths

Date: 17:04:31 08/24/00

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On August 23, 2000 at 23:56:24, Imran Hendley wrote:

>On August 23, 2000 at 23:42:10, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>sorry about that, the number refers to the actual position number in the book.
>>my copy is from 1980 so it may be different from the new edition that came out
>>recently.
>
>Sorry for the dumb question, but what book is this from? What does ECM stand
>for? Is there anywhere i can download this test suite on the internet? Or is
>there anywhere that lists certain programs' results on it? Thanks.

Some other names you might see are...

File: BK.epd


Title: Advances in Computer Chess 3 (The Bratko-Kopec Experiment)
Author: I. Bratko and Danny Kopec
Date: 1982
ISBN: 0-08-026898-6
Count: 24



File: BWTC.epd


Title: 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checknate
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Date: 1955
ISBN: 0-87980-110-7
Count: 1001



File: ECE3.epd


Title: Encyclopedia of Chess Endgames (vol. 3) (extract)
Author: A. Adorjan, et al.
Date: 1986
ISBN: ?
Count: 1797



File: ECM.epd


Title: Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames (extract)
Author: N. Krogius, A. Livsic, B. Parma, M. Taimanov
Date: 1980
ISBN: None
Count: 879



File: GMG1.epd


Title: Bent Larsen's Good Move Guide (ch. 1 extract)
Author: Bent Larsen
Date: 1982
ISBN: 0-19-217593-9
Count: 100



File: GMG2.epd


Title: Bent Larsen's Good Move Guide (ch. 2 extract)
Author: Bent Larsen
Date: 1982
ISBN: 0-19-217593-9
Count: 48



File: GMG3.epd


Title: Bent Larsen's Good Move Guide (ch. 4 extract)
Author: Bent Larsen
Date: 1982
ISBN: 0-19-217593-9
Count: 63



File: IMCP.epd


Title: Ideal Mate Chess Problems (extract)
Author: E. Albert
Date: 1966
ISBN: ?
Count: 106



File: MES.epd


Title: 1234 Modern Endgame Studies
Author: M. A. Sutherland and H. M. Lommer
Date: 1968
ISBN: 486-21884-8
Count: 1258



File: TWGCG.epd


Title: The World's Greatest Chess Games
Author: Reuben Fine
Date: 1951
ISBN: ?
Count: 50



File: TYPP.epd


Title: Test Your Positional Play
Author: Robert Bellin and Pietro Ponzetto
Date: 1985
ISBN: ?
Count: 33



File: WAC.epd


Title: Win at Chess
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Date: 1958
ISBN: 0-486-20438-3
Count: 300



File: WCSAC.epd


Title: 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
Author: Fred Reinfeld
Date: 1955
ISBN: 0-87980-111-5
Count: 1001





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