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Subject: Re: EPD -> SOL convertor to test epdfiles in Crafty

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 05:50:02 09/22/01

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On September 21, 2001 at 14:11:53, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 21, 2001 at 08:35:04, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2001 at 08:22:07, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>On September 21, 2001 at 04:27:57, Michel Langeveld wrote:
>>>
>>>>I made a program in a few minutes to convert an epdfile to
>>>>In this way it's possible to test a testsuite with the command 'test <testfile>'
>>>>in crafty.
>>>>
>>>>I couldn't find this option for this in the epd commands. There's no such
>>>>command described in epdhelp and crafty.doc. (Crafty.doc doesn't describe epd
>>>>commands at all. But anyway here's the program
>>>>
>>>>The code is a little hack. But I promise to fix all bugs people will send me.
>>>>
>>>>Michel
>>>>
>>>
>>>Thank you for your source code. It's very usefull for me.
>>>Perhaps Bob will include your code as a command for crafty?
>>>Kind regards
>>>Bernhard
>>
>>Maybe, Maybe not. I saw later that it is also possible to this with crafty.
>>Do "epdpfga" on a epdfile and after that do "epdscor" on a <outfile>. In this
>>way it's possible to count the results.
>>
>>The advantage of the conversion is the "test" command is that it is possible to
>>give extra options which can save time.
>>
>>epdpfga: Analyze EPD data from <file1> to <file2>
>>epdscor: Score benchmark EPD results from <file2>
>
>Several other people have also already written EPD to crafty test format
>converters.
>
>For sure Dieter did, and also Lyapko George.
>
>At any rate, here is an option from Dieter Buerssner in C:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/EPD2CI.C
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/epd2ci.exe
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/epd2ci.txt
>
>And from Lyapko George (Delphi code):
>http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/epd2craf.zip

Thanks for the tip! I didn't know it was already twice available.

Michel



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