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Subject: Re: Question to Dann Corbit

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:10:18 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 01:32:26, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I was looking at the epd files at your ftp and as many epd strings have errors i
>wonder how many are out there? Are there any plans to fix those files?
>
>
>
>I did find one
>2rq1rk1/pb3p1p/1p2pbp1/3p3R/2PP4/PP5R/1B3PPP/3Q1BK1 b - - bm cxd4; id "WM-Test
>Extra 47) ...c5xd4";
>
>this should be dxc4!
>
>There are quite a few in AEMIS and COVAX as well and ECE and ECM  but those are
>more because the analysis is wrong than the actual epd string.
>
>Lastly i wanted to gather the new files you posted but i have a question about
>some older ones namely bench3 and mega as well as a couple others are just
>combinations of many sets put together  some files have an *.*xtd  extension ,
>what are these and of the C.A.P positions how do i tell which ones are or aren't
>solved.
>
>the readme from the acopolypse file says that crafty has a function that points
>unsolved positions out  is there another way?  Pardon me for my lack of
>coherency i am a little tired.

Nearly all test suites have bugs in them.  Some of them are particularly bad
(the original implementation of ECM springs to mind).



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