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Subject: Re: A possible program that may help a lot of programmers for optimization

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:38:39 12/04/02

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On December 04, 2002 at 06:56:35, Richard Pijl wrote:

>On December 04, 2002 at 05:22:48, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On December 04, 2002 at 04:28:15, David Rasmussen wrote:
>>
>>>I don't need an external program for that. I test like that already. I test to
>>>fixed depths, in the case of speed. Because then the speed gain will still be
>>>visible, and the node count and all other things not dependant on time, should
>>>be exactly the same.
>>>
>>>/David
>>
>>You are right that testing for fixed depth for that purpose is simpler but
>>EPD2WB has not an option to test for fixed depth and I did not care to develop a
>>special program to analyze epd files after the existence of EPD2WB
>
>It should be very easy for you to add a command to Movei to search a small
>number of positions to a fixed depth and then provide statistics on the results.
>That's what I've done in the Baron (command is 'bench').
>It just seems much simpler than developing and using an external test program
>...
>
>Richard.

I agree that it is simpler than developing an external program.
I do not agree that it is simpler than using an external program.

Until today I did not develop a function to read epd files because I used an
external function for that job(EPD2WB).

Uri



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