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Subject: Re: ECM errata

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 19:18:48 01/19/98

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>Suits me.  How about we first fix the current ECM suite then.  Either
>decide that a position needs an additional key move, or that a position
>should be discarded.
>
>I want to see the following:
>
>1.  no positions that are solved positionally at very shallow plies,
>because
>a program gets credit for playing the right move for the wrong reason.
>
>2.  no positions that have one key move given, but another key move
>produces
>an eval of +12 or something.  I'd like to consider +12 as correct,
>unless we
>can demonstrate that +12 is wrong and a deeper search proves it..
>
>3.  later I'd like to see easy ones discarded because running this
>entire
>thing for 1 or 2 minutes will take over half a day at one minute, over a
>full day at 2 minutes.  That's too long...


I do not think we have agreement on your first condition.  But I would
like to emphasize that I think it's an important one.   The set won't
be nearly as useful if every program plays the right moves for the
wrong reasons.

- Don



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