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Subject: Evaluating difficulty of a position

Author: Mark Christiaens

Date: 03:19:12 11/20/00

I've written a program that generates a "puzzle competition".  The program
generates Lout source for 5 rounds of puzzles, together with the solution
sheets, score sheets, ...

For this, I'm using a database of mate in 1, mate in 2, ... problems from which
I select a number of problems.  Although most puzzles are from the mate in 2
kind, there is a large difference in subjective difficulty between one puzzle
and the next.

My question is: is there any way to evaluate how difficult a problem is (using a
program) for a human so that I can construct a set of puzzles which are easy,
moderate, difficult?


Kind regards,

Mark Christiaens

Re: Evaluating difficulty of a position Bob Durrett 07:36:02 11/20/00
- Re: Evaluating difficulty of a position Severi Salminen 09:13:04 11/20/00
  - What Makes a Position Difficult for a Human to Solve? Computers? Bob Durrett 09:26:24 11/20/00
    - Re: What Makes a Position Difficult for a Human to Solve? Computers? Graham Laight 02:41:26 11/21/00
    - Re: What Makes a Position Difficult for a Human to Solve? Computers? Rafael Andrist 10:06:26 11/20/00
      - Difficult to Program? Bob Durrett 18:49:11 11/20/00
        
        Re: Difficult to Program? Robert Hyatt 07:42:23 11/21/00
        
        Re: Difficult to Program? Mark Rawlings 08:17:59 11/21/00
- Re: Evaluating difficulty of a position Heiner Marxen 08:38:11 11/20/00

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