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Subject: Endgame Test Suite

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 17:17:10 08/04/01


Is anyone aware of a good endgame test suite?

I am after a test suite that has the following properties:

- a decent number of positions, I'd say at least 100 positions.

- a range of different endgame types: pawn endings, minor piece endings, rook
endings, queen endings, multi-piece endings.

- positions that cover a range of difficulties, a few easy ones and quite a few
hard ones.  A reasonable program should be able to solve some at say
10sec/position, but it should not be too easy.  If programs could solve say 95%
of positions at 1min/position, I'd call it too easy.

- the test suite itself should be thoroughly debugged!


If such a suite does not exist, perhaps it would be a good project to create
one?  A good start might be trawling back thru. CCC for test positions.  Is
there much interest in this idea?

Peter



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