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

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 11:34:25 06/07/01

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On June 07, 2001 at 13:53:10, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 07, 2001 at 12:29:41, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>ECM has an awful lot of bugs in it.  That is something that potential users
>should be aware of.

Why not just create a revised version of it for testing purposes?

                                         Albert



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