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Subject: Re: ECM errata

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:59:34 01/20/98

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On January 20, 1998 at 00:54:39, Don Dailey wrote:

>YES    NO
>
>---- ----   1. Should the program have a single clearly best move?
>
>---- ----   2. Can it have more than 1 clearly better than others?
>
>---- ----   3. Should we KEEP the easy problems?
>
>---- ----   4. Is it ok if programs tend to solve it by accident?
>
>
>Here's my answers:
>
>1.  YES  but don't care that much
>2.  NO   but don't care that much
>3.  YES  but don't care that much
>4.  NO   but I can cull them later

What I would like is a <= 300 position test where most of the problems
solve in 30-3600 seconds with a good program on normal hardware, which
isn't really very coincident with what you want to do.

You seem to be more interested in redacting ECM, in order to produce
something that is more thoroughly correct, which is a perfectly fine
thing to do, although it isn't what I am interested in doing.  Since it
was your idea to start with, I think that you should continue doing
this.  I'll continue to contribute ideas, but I think I should stop
suggesting stuff that subverts this goal.

bruce



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