Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:06:40 06/05/02
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On June 05, 2002 at 17:52:52, Sune Fischer wrote: >On June 04, 2002 at 19:47:07, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>It would be nice for every program to provide perft > >done! >I did it so it can be run from winboard (Alt-1) and then the result pops up with >telluser perft 5 = x. Is this acceptable winboard behavior? > >>Also auto (where the program plays against itself) > >why? >I had that once, took it out because I didn't find a use for it. I think it is *the* most useful command. 1. Profile sessions -- you get 100 percent of your program's effort churning away even on a single CPU machine. You can figure out where the hotspots are much better. 2. Analysis -- If you give a program long time control, set up a position, and let it run in auto mode, it will give you a far, far better pv to work from than sitting on the same spot for the same time frame. >>Also EPD test suite processing. > >is there a tutorial or some instructions on how to do that? Here is the PGN standard, from Heiner's page (it popped up first in the search for some reason): http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/PGN_Standard.txt Look at section 16.2. Also, Crafty has a fancy-pants EPD processor written by SJE himself. Beowulf has a public source EPD processor section. Sjeng has a public source EPD processor section. Lots of other engines have EPD processing. It is important to both read and write EPD.
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