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Subject: Re: A proposed WAC replacement for testing (more results)

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 00:15:23 09/19/01

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On September 18, 2001 at 18:23:26, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On September 18, 2001 at 13:05:08, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>Like many others here, I use a standard testset
>>for testing improvements and doing regression
>>testing to my engine.
>>
>>So far WAC has been adequate, but as you all
>>know it has two annoying problems, namely that
>>over 2/3 of the problems are solved by 2 ply
>>searches and hence useless, and the level of
>>most of the others isn't very hard either with
>>nowadays CPU's.
>>
>>ECM could have been better, but it's very big
>>(over 800 positions) and contains a lot of garbage.
>>
>>Based on some parts of ECM I got from Dann's
>>ftp and a day with Goliath Light, Hiarcs and
>>my common sense I filtered 200 positions of
>>varying difficulty which have, as far as I could
>>tell and verify, correct solutions.
>>The suite is meant for relatively quick testing
>>of improvements and/or regressions. The recommended
>>time is 10 seconds per position. Running all
>>positions takes a little over half an hour. It
>>is what I currently use instead of WAC.
>>
>>I would appreciate feedback about the positions,
>>especially if you think there is an incorrect
>>or dual soltion. Performance data of other amateur
>>or professional programs is appreciated too.
>>My latest Sjeng gets 80/200 at 10s on an Athlon 1000.
>>
>>GCP
>
>Hmmm.. is it just me, or are there *201* positions?
>PostModernist gets 84 at 10s on an Athlon 1200.
>FYI, PM gets 59 at 5 seconds, and 26 at 1 second
>Quite a nice distribution at short times. I'll try
>overnight on 120 seconds.
>
>Regards
>
>Andrew
>
>[Test positions snipped; please see GCP's original message for the test set]

I tried PM at 120 seconds: 147 correct at 120 seconds, 131 correct at 60
seconds, 111 correct at 30 seconds. I like this test set.

Cheers

Andrew



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