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

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 12:35:20 01/15/01

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On January 15, 2001 at 14:34:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On January 15, 2001 at 14:26:23, Jon Dart wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I guess that in most of the cases that all the programs converge to the same
>move there is a good reason for it(the difference may be small but if all top
>programs can find the same move by a long search of 24 hours the program that
>can see it in 3 minutes has probably better positional understanding)
>
>Uri

Using my K6-2 500 MHz Nimzo 8 saw g3 on the first 2.5 minutes and is still
considering g3 as its best move. I will wait until tomorrow to see if is still
considering g3 as the best move.

Pichard.



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