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Subject: ECM is good

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 21:56:27 06/07/01

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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.
>
>bruce

I like also ECM. I have taken 200 hardest ECM positions from Fritz tactical
suite and after very hard work reduced it to 100 positions, which are not
trivial, but still almost 100% sure correct. For my surprise I noticed
yesterday, that with 10 minute level Crafty18.7 scored same 82/100 as Deep
Shredder!

Jouni



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