Author: Will Singleton
Date: 12:41:09 05/04/01
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On May 04, 2001 at 15:31:09, Peter Berger wrote: >On May 04, 2001 at 15:21:30, Will Singleton wrote: > >>On May 03, 2001 at 18:33:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On May 03, 2001 at 18:26:53, Will Singleton wrote: >>> >>>>Computer Chess Report, I think. >>> >>>Is there some web page that discusses this? Is it from a magazine article? >> >>Steve should know something about this, as ICD took over the CCR publishing at >>some point. My test suite came from a MacChess distribution, which says nothing >>about it, other than how to tabuluate the results. I do recall some article >>about it, maybe in ICCAJ, which may have said something about how some of the >>solutions were perhaps slightly more arbitrary than other test suites. >> >>Will > >The analysis provided with the test was quoted by Dana Turnmire in > >http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?167129 > >That the solutions are slightly more arbitrary than in other test suites hasn't >been shown here recently afaik ; the solutions look OK to me - I'd be interested >to see some quotes from this ICCAJ article . > >From two recent posts of Bob Hyatt I got the impression that there might be >_two_ test suites in fact - he discussed some arbitrary decisions about solving >positions in 0 or 0.5 seconds which wouldn't matter at all in the one Dana >posted . > >pete Dana's explanation differs from the one I have in only one respect. My instructions say to multiply the sum of the points by 10, then add 1700 for ELO, or 1870 for USCF. As for the ICCAJ article, do they have a searchable website now? Will
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