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

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 13:03:19 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

I don't know if this is useful data or not, but during the recent craze
for running with just material eval and no extensions, my program managed
270 correct at five seconds per position. When I added extensions back in,
(still with just material eval), I got 283 correct. Standard-issue PM gets
285 correct at five seconds, and between 290 and 296 at 60 seconds per
position.

Cheers

Andrew



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