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Subject: Re: test positions from Arasan games

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 12:19:16 08/30/98

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On August 29, 1998 at 15:17:58, Jon Dart wrote:

Nice testsuite! It is the only suite I know where the best move often
gets a score <0!

Is #64 ok?
>I have been using the following testsuite for a while - it is a set of
>positions derived from games my program Arasan has played, mostly
>on FICS. Some are "avoid move" positions where there is a bad but
>superficially tempting move. Also, quite a few involve defensive
>situations where the program is in a bind but there is a move that
>delays disaster for a while (this is different from most test suites).
>
>Currently Arasan 5.0 (not yet released) is scoring about 50/80 on this
>suite, running on an AMD K6/233.
Gromit on K6/200 also gets 50/80.

>
>I have checked most solution moves by having Crafty or Genius 5
>analyze the game, but it is possible that some of the "best moves"
>aren't, or that there are alternative good moves. If anyone finds
>such a situation, I'd like to know about it.
>

<snipped many positions>
>3r1r1k/5ppp/2Np1n2/p1bPp3/B1P1P3/2P4P/1R3PP1/4R1K1 b - - bm Ra1; id "test.64";
Ra8 or white to move?

Frank



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