Author: Amir Ban
Date: 00:59:46 01/05/98
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On January 04, 1998 at 18:06:34, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On January 04, 1998 at 17:12:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>any chance of posting this in EPD or something similar here? > >What, ECM? That's on ftp://ics.onenet.net/pub/chess/Tests/ > >It's probably over 50K in text form, so it wouldn't make much sense to >post it here. > >bruce Almost all this test suite material that is going around was done ages ago by anonymous people. This one is 879 positions copied from a book (the ECM) and is only part of it. There are others, like ECE3, 1800 positions which is only vol 3 out of an endgame encyclopedia. Who are the wonderful people who did this great work long ago and why did they stop ? Today, everybody seems to be only interested in selecting a few handpicked positions, and spend most of their effort in attaching a formula and a theory to them. OK, quality counts, but so does quantity ! We also have to thank the Deep-Blue team for taking the WAC suite and thoroughly amending it. The original Reinfeld version is available and is so full of errors that it would never have been useful. This was one of their greatest contributions to CC. To my knowledge no other work was done on investigating the correctness of suites. I am coming to the suggestion: Providing large and well-tested suites from the many written sources is something that the ICCA can do to advance the field. It can seek volunteer help or set funds to pay for this work, and use its web-site and magazine to publish. I am suggesting it to the Programmer Advisory Committee (or however it's called). Amir
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