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Subject: Re: Revised ECM test suite

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:36:25 02/16/04

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On February 16, 2004 at 20:21:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On February 16, 2004 at 19:41:28, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>Note only that I did not see his corrections and I cannot agree or disagree with
>>something that I did not see.
>>
>>I am also not interested in his solutions(there are enough test suites that are
>>better than ECM like arasan test suite or GCP that is practically part of ECM).
>
>Any links to those test suites?

see the arasan page

http://www.arasanchess.org/tests.html

Uri



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