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Subject: Re: Excellent!! Results of 140 engines in test suite "WM-Test" for download

Author: Manfred Meiler

Date: 02:38:22 12/29/02

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Hi Chris,

thanks for your kind words !

Manfred



On December 28, 2002 at 11:40:33, Christopher A. Morgan wrote:

>
>Manfred,
>
>Thank you!  Tremendous accomplishment, excellent documentation and presentation
>of results, as well as thorough analysis of the test positions, and selection of
>the same, not to mention the thoroughness of testing every engine you could
>find!  I have some idea of the work involved as I recently posted results from
>running 23 engines through 389 test positions, allowing maximum of 30 seconds to
>solve.  I know this must have taken you literally hundreds of hours of work.
>
>You have obviously set the standard for all of us for testing and presentation
>of test position results.  Congratulations!!
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>On December 28, 2002 at 08:01:49, Manfred Meiler wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>the test suite "Weltmeister-Test" (WM-Test) of the authors Dr. Michael Gurevich
>>and Heinz-Josef Schumacher includes 100 test positions:
>>38 positions in king attack, 36 in positional play and 26 in endgame.
>>
>>I've tested now 140 engines (many professionals and WB/UCI engines) in this test
>>suite - also all new(er) ones like:
>>Fritz 8, Shredder 7, Chess Tiger 15 (Normal, Gambit, Gambit aggr.), Chessmaster
>>9000, CM9-Utz12n, CM9_Pillen, List 5.04, Genius 7.0
>>and many WB/UCI engines like Ruffian 1.0.0., Aristarch 4.5 beta, Little Goliath
>>2000 v3.9, Comet B50, AnMon 5.21, SmarThink 0.12a+, Nejmet 3.06 and Delfi 3.3.
>>
>>My hardware: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1400 MHz, 384 MB RAM.
>>Each of the 100 positions was tested 20 minutes in analyse mode, without opening
>>books but with access to complete Nalimov EGDB (5 men).
>>
>>My detailed results are presented in an EXCEL sheet which is available for free
>>download at
>>http://www.computerschach.de/test/
>>
>>Added is also a collection of the 100 test positions (commented) in the formats
>>cbh, cbf, pgn and epd.
>>The EXCEL sheet and the test positions are available in german and english
>>versions.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Manfred



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