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Subject: Re: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Quiet Test, version 0.00

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 21:45:47 12/27/01

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On December 28, 2001 at 00:30:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>You are in a library, surrounded by carriages holding sleeping babies.
>
>Time for "quiet test", version 0.00
>
>Does your program think like a GM when there is no tactical shot nearby?
>
>It will take you 24 hours to find out.  The test runs all day and all night, and
>finishes in under 24 hours at one second per position.
>
>The positions in this test are taken from real super-GM games {ELO 2700+}, and
>from correspondence masters, as well as a few from the most highly rated chess
>programs running on GHz machines at 40/2.
>
>No tactical threats, no obvious moves for material reason.
>
>Will you score higher than 25%?
>
>Here is the test compressed with bzip2:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/EPD/qtest.epd.bz2
>
>Here is the test uncompressed:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/EPD/qtest.epd
>
>It consists of 81,660 distinct positions and takes 22.7 hours to run at 1 second
>per position.

Now I know why you needed pgn --> epd + bm utility!!!

How did you get rid of the positions that were tactical? Analyzed them all?

I think this is great material, thanks!

Miguel





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