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Subject: Re: latest Arasan test suite

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:22:14 05/16/03

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On May 16, 2003 at 11:43:12, Jon Dart wrote:

>I think most are tactical, in the sense that the best move wins material or
>produces some other clear advantage. But a program with material only eval
>wouldn't likely do well. Some positions require some endgame knowledge to
>evaluate accurately, for example. And tactical problems are often solved much
>faster if the program understands something about king safety.

I agree that tactical problems are solved faster if the program has better
evaluation but I simply wanted to know if there are positions that
I should not use if I test changes in the search and not test in the evaluation.

I guess that you say that every position should be solved after a deep search by
a program that is not totally stupid.

Uri



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