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Subject: Re: the easy testset

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 14:47:04 10/17/01

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On October 17, 2001 at 10:47:19, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>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?

I don't care for solution times. It's plydepths i care for.
It's all 5 to 8 ply majority of positions

You claimed that it was not an easy testset, but positions that solve
at 5 to 8 ply are pretty easy.

I got also 8 ply at world champs 1997.

It's 4 years later now.

>Regards,
>Miguel



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