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Subject: Re: SSDF Rating List 02-07-30

Author: pavel

Date: 11:00:23 07/31/02

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On July 31, 2002 at 12:22:41, Pointer wrote:

>
>i for myself would prefer a ranking list based on games
>beginning from a random starting position. this random starting position
>should be picked out of a database of about 1000 well chosen starting positions.
>all these positions in the database should be equal for both sides,
>like the nunn's positions.


That rating list will suggest strength of the program based only on those 1000
positions, and thus can be easily tweaked by anyone to play good only on those
1000 positions.

pavs



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