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Subject: Re: Revised ECM test suite

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 16:20:37 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 18:42:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 18:34:30, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2004 at 18:27:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On February 16, 2004 at 18:09:07, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>>
>>>>In the archives I found that several people have published corrected versions of
>>>>the ECM test suite. Could anyone please mention the link to the latest revision?
>>>
>>>the corrected one is not a corrected one but a raped one. Some good positions
>>>were thrown out because the persons in question didn't understand the position,
>>>or were confused because the great position did have a deep win, but not the
>>>annotated win but some other move was written down in the confusion one day.
>>>
>>>if something is hard to find it doesn't mean you should kick it out of a testset
>>>IMHO.
>>>
>>>So using a corrected ECM doesn't make sense. Using however the same ECM with
>>>improved solutions and alternatives makes more sense.
>>
>>Do you have such a version?  I'd be interested in testing it.
>>
>>Will
>
>Yes i have such a corrected version (a position or 500 i corrected not the last
>500).
>
>No i won't spread it. Ask Uri, he doesn't agree with my corrections anyway.

I'm asking you.  I think a subset of ECM, by a chessplayer and programmer such
as yourself, would be very valuable.  And not only to me, but to the amateur
computer-chess community at large.

Will



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