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Subject: Re: WM test bugs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:14:07 06/29/02

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On June 29, 2002 at 09:40:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On June 28, 2002 at 18:38:57, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>now try the reigning world champion 2001 deepjunior7 at your pc
>and give it 12 hours time to analyze, post the score and post
>the mainline.
>
>This instead of the program for which the testset has been
>made, namely Fritz.

I do not see a reason to do a test suite that is special for Fritz.
I also believe that more than 90% of the Fritz buyers never heard about the WM
test suite and I also believe that more than 90% of the customers do not care
about results of test suite because result of test suite give no useful
information.

Test suites even do not tell me which program is better in tactics even when all
the solutions are correct and it is impossible to find the right move for the
wrong reasons.

In that case programs can use the information that the main line at small depth
cannot be good and simply save time by searching only lines that seem bad at
small depthes(they can calculate exact score for every move at depth 3 and
continue to search only lines with a score that it is at least 0.2 pawns smaller
than the right move).

Uri



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