Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:54:47 08/18/02
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On August 18, 2002 at 19:53:18, Albert Silver wrote: it is a bad idea to design a testset for 10-15 seconds now because by the time the testset is finished movei is improved 100 times and will find everything under 1 second, not to mention the already bugfixed other 100 engines. Also hardware increases, within 6 months when the new intel hardware and new SGI machines (with mckinleys) get on the market it is completely outdated. nevertheless the collection in itself is a 1000000x better idea than what the 'wmtest' guys did. i obviously love to receive the uri blass testset. >On August 18, 2002 at 06:27:08, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 17, 2002 at 23:14:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On August 17, 2002 at 17:43:15, Mike S. wrote: >>> >>>i hope you realized i put serious time in some positions >>>of their testset, in order >>>to find out that i have put more time in the positions than >>>they have when i started emailing them about it. >>> >>>If they use the word time. they mean 'computer time'. >> >>I think that only computer time is needed to generate a good test suite. >>I try to generate a good test suite based on games of movei in the 3th division >>of the winboard programs but it is going to take time. >> >>I am going to put only mistakes when there is a difference of more than one pawn >>between the score of yace after the move and the score of yace before the move >>after long analysis. > >I don't think you need long analysis for this. Basically, if the eval drops >significantly even after short analysis (10-15 seconds per move) you can be sure >something happened either the last move or a few moves ago (maybe it only saw >the problem a few moves after the blunder). When you see this sudden change, you >can use your own judgement, with the help of an engine, to see what happened. >You could then determine what the best move should have been, and whether it >constitutes a good test move. > > Albert > >> >>I will be happy if there are people who are interested in helping me. >> >>Uri
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