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Subject: Re: Best testsuite (sure it's not WAC)

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 09:29:41 06/07/01

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On June 07, 2001 at 05:52:51, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Yes I know all test suites are almost useless to finds the best playing chess
>software. But still, which suite is the less bad in your opinion? If You can
>only use one test suite before starting real games, which suite will you select?
>Is it still LCT II?
>
>I wonder why WAC suite is still discussed here. It's too easy, when most
>programs score 299/300 with 1 min level. Or may be 297/298 is they have null
>move problems. But in any case You don't get any info by running WAC...
>
>Jouni

Clearly ECM, if your program is strong enough to find the stuff.  If not, then
WAC.  But if you start getting 280-290 on WAC, it's time to go to ECM.

This is for tactical stuff.  For positional stuff, you'd do okay to just eyeball
it.

bruce




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