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Subject: Re: ECM is good

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:04:30 06/07/01

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On June 08, 2001 at 00:56:27, Jouni Uski 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.
>>
>>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!

If you could email the 100 bad boys, I would appreciate it.



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