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

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 11:26:23 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).

To have a good test, the selected move needs to be better than other
alternatives by a significant amount. If, say Rb8 is good but Rc8 has very close
to the same score, then you can't really say that a program which selects Rc8 is
wrong. It could do just as well in an actual game as one that selected Rb8.

--Jon




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