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Subject: Re: How many Problems are there in all the Test Sets? I have 1748 unsolved

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 09:21:24 10/02/01

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On October 01, 2001 at 15:59:07, Joshua Lee wrote:

>Months ago i took all epd files from Dan Corbit's site and ended up having well
>over 6000 but alot are duplicates. Well Now i have 1748 that were not solved in
>15 minutes with Fritz 6. I didn't do anything with problems with no solution
>given so there are more but i believe to have the core or important positions
>ECM ECE TWGCG  and so on.  If anybody wants me to post this in pgn format i will
>as i haven't figured out hot to convert what i have back to epd.

If you have the last version of Yace, it can convert epd to pgn for you.
Just start yace.exe without GUI. Type the following (the semicolon lines are
not needed:

; we only want to convert, save the time for hash clearing
hash 0
; very fast search, only 1000 nodes
nodes 1K
epdtest testsuite.epd
quit

You can also save the above lines to a file, say test.inp, and run

yace < test.inp

Yace will create a file tmp.pgn while processing the testsuite, that should
be suitable for Fritz and Co. However, I have not found a way, to write
"am"s, so that the CB-interface understands this. Also, my version of Fritz does
not seem to understand, when there are more than 2 "bm"s. If anybody knows, or
can show me an example, how to write pgns with more than 2 bm or an am, so that
the Fritz testsuite processing works correctly, I will be interested.

Regards,
Dieter




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