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Subject: Re: Test positions and results for chess engines?

Author: Geert van der Wulp

Date: 06:41:24 02/27/04

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On February 27, 2004 at 09:36:41, Manfred Meiler wrote:

>On February 27, 2004 at 09:20:12, Geert van der Wulp wrote:
>
>>Hello to all,
>>
>>I believe to have seen a website once, on which commercial and freeware programs
>>were tested on several test positions. Can anyone provide me the link, if it is
>>still active?
>>
>>Thank you in advance
>>
>>Geert
>
>
>Hello Geert,
>
>of course I do not know which website you mean.
>But maybe you should have a look at http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm
>
>There you'll find a link "Weltmeister-Test" with a ZIP file for download with my
>results (in Excel) of 230 chess engines (all commercials and many freeware) in a
>test suite called "Weltmeister-Test" (WM-Test).
>
>The "WM-Test" includes 100 test positions from games of the different (human)
>chess world champions:
>38 positions in King attack, 36 positions in positional playing and 26 positions
>in endgame.
>
>Each of the 100 test positions was tested 20 minutes in analyse mode, without
>access to opening books, but with access to endgame databases (Nalimov
>tablebases, complete 3/4/5 pieces).
>
>Regards,
>Manfred

Dear Manfred,

This was not what I have seen before, but IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR!
Thank you very much. I will spend some hours to analyse the results myslef, to
see which engine fits my requirements best.

Regards,

Geert



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