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Subject: Re: Test suite for move generation

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:27:02 03/03/04

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On March 03, 2004 at 16:09:41, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>No, I haven't given up on my project or fallen off the face of the earth. I
>haven't posted in a few days because finally a problem slowed me down. A series
>of problems, actually - of the move generation kind. Been running lots of perft
>tests and tracking down bugs. I have most of them, I think, but there are still
>some lingering. Sooooo, what I'd like to do is put together a list of good,
>simple positions for testing various move generation quirks like castling,
>promotion, etc. Kind of like an epd test suite for perft. Can anyone recommend
>an easy way to mass-produce correct perft numbers for a list of positions? I can
>write the code for my program, but if I don't have something to compare it
>against, it's kind of pointless. I'll post the positions when I'm done in case
>someone's interested. Thanks! Andrew

Look at this site:
http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~peter/perft.htm



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