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Subject: Re: the easy testset

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 07:47:19 10/17/01

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On October 17, 2001 at 04:50:23, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On October 17, 2001 at 00:02:15, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:
>

>You took away the hard positions and have left the easy positions
>in the testset?

No, I took away the incorrect ones. There are only 4 positions that could
be more difficult but I have not tested the correctness yet. Those cannot
be solved by YACE or Crafty in 1/2 hour in a K2-400 mhz.

Obviously, these positions are not a challenge for commercial engines
in the fastest hardware; but they are not meant to be. In fact, it is not easy
to find positions where the solution is _purely_ combinatorial and it is
challenge for top programs in top hardware. These positions are certainly useful
for amateur programs.
My idea is to get as many clean combinatorial positions as possible and later
I might categorize them. For instance, this test suite is not useful for you
but it is for me.
Anyway, the idea was to have solutions where the time could be measured. i.e,
more than one second but apparently they are easier than that.

Can you please post the solution time of the ones that require more than a
second?

Regards,
Miguel



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