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Subject: Re: EPD format

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 13:27:36 11/07/00

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Thanks a lot for your help. I have fixed all your complaints.

Stefan



On November 07, 2000 at 14:40:12, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On November 07, 2000 at 07:36:09, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote:
>
>>
>>Sone people asked me to add a feature in Shredder to produce a epd file with the
>>results when running testsuites so the results can be imported into bookup.
>>
>>Below is the output of Shredder of a testfile. Can anybody please check if
>>bookup can read this?
>>
>>Is there no token for the search depth?
>
>It is (I think) *the* most important measure and was completely left out.  The
>number of seconds (acs) is pointless, since it might have been a 90 MHz Pentium
>or it could be Deep Blue.  So what do the seconds mean?  Nothing.
>
>Crafty uses acd, and hiarcs uses dep for depth.  I know that crafty has a
>toolkit written by Steven J. Edwards which is (If I recall correctly) public
>domain and can be used by any program.  It is, without question, the best and
>most standard EPD processor.  There is some EPD processing code on my ftp site,
>also.  It's in C++ and was written by Thomas Mooney III.
>
>Crafty has an option to clean up epd (called epdpfdr) that produces EPD output
>that most programs can read.  You have a few errors in your output below.
>
>>Thanks
>>   Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>rq2r1k1/5pp1/p7/4bNP1/1p2P2P/5Q2/PP4K1/5R1R w - - bm Nxg7 BT-2630.1; ce 182; acs
>
>rq2r1k1/5pp1/p7/4bNP1/1p2P2P/5Q2/PP4K1/5R1R w - - bm Nxg7; id "BT-2630.1"; ce
>182; acs
>
>
>>0; acn 106652; pv 1.Nxg7 Kxg7 2.Qxf7+ Kh8 3.Qh7+ Kxh7 4.Rf7+ Kg6 5.Rf6+ Bxf6
>>6.h5+ Kxg5 (38.748) 112.9; c0 depth=8
>
>No numbers in the pv!
>Like this:
>Nxg7 Kxg7 Qxf7+ Kh8 Qh7+ Kxh7 Rf7+ Kg6 Rf6+ Bxf6
>
>Also (a common mistake) is to put ... in the front of the pv when it is black to
>move.  This is not allowed.  You did not do that, but I just wanted to mention
>it.
>
>Also, the comment c0 should be quoted and the line should end with a semicolon
>like this:
>c0 "depth=8";
>
>>6k1/2b2p1p/ppP3p1/4p3/PP1B4/5PP1/7P/7K w - - bm Bxb6 BT-2630.2; ce 82; acs 0;
>>acn 147273; pv 1.Be3 Kf8 2.Bg5 f5 3.Kg2 Kf7 4.b5 axb5 5.axb5 Ke6 (73.507) 130.7;
>
>This stuff:
> (73.507) 130.7;
>is not allowed except in the comments field.
>
>
>[snip]



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