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Subject: Re: Positional tests in EPD format for 6519 positions.

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 01:28:35 10/26/98

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On October 26, 1998 at 01:43:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>On October 26, 1998 at 01:41:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>On October 25, 1998 at 22:46:52, Mark Young wrote:
>>>Positional tests in EPD format for 6519 positions.
>>>
>>>I find this file at ftp://38.168.214.175/pub Benchmark.EPD
>>>
>>>Does anyone know anything about this file? Is it worth getting?
>>It's just an amalgamation of a bunch of famous epd test suites.  Nothing new,
>>really.  But if you want an EPD test position, chances are very good it is
>>contained in that file.
>I should mention that bench2.epd is a better file.  A few errors in
>Benchmark2.epd have been corrected (some parsers could not read all of the
>lines).  There are no known errors in Bench2.epd and all of the rows can be >read
>by all of the EPD readers that I have tried.

Looks like a nice collection, Dann -- thank you very much for composing it!

BTW, are you sure that the positions feature the correct castling rights?

=Ernst=



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