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Subject: Re: An idea to generate a new test suite that is not only tactics

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 09:56:14 01/15/01

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On January 15, 2001 at 12:24:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>It is possible to use some games and a lot of computer time to genrate a test
>suite.
>
>The idea is to give some top programs to analyze all the positions in the games
>and to give them 24 hours per position.
>
>The test suite can include all the positions that there was an agreement between
>all the top programs about the best move after 24 hours of search when part of
>them needed more than 3 minutes to converge to the best move(otherwise the
>position is too easy).
>
>People can claim that the fact that all of the program converge to the same move
>is not a proof that it is the best move and I agree but I think that in
>more than 90% of the cases the solution will be correct.

On the SSDF is a positional test suite similar to the one that you propose.



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