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Subject: Re: Mountain of best moves EPD file.

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 05:59:35 03/12/04

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On March 12, 2004 at 01:16:16, Dann Corbit wrote:

>This is a best move file of mostly quiet moves:
>ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/best7.epd.bz2

I also got "The Page Cannot be Displayed" from this one.  Maybe I do not know
how to download an ftp file.  I just clicked on it and assumed everything would
work.  Is there some special trick needed to download an ftp file?  Maybe some
special Internet Explorer settings or something?

These EPD files are of great interest to me.

Bob D.

>
>The moves are taken from super GM games (2650 Elo and above both sides) and from
>correspondence games between highly rated players, along with SSDF games.
>
>Some sample positions:
>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p1n1pn2/8/P1BP4/5N2/1P2QPPP/RNBR2K1 w - - bm Nc3; c0
>"Nc3(105)";
>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p1np1n2/4p3/4P3/1NN1B3/PPP1BPPP/R2Q1R1K b - - bm Be6; c0
>"Be6(2)";
>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p1nppn2/8/2BNP3/2N1B3/PPP1QPPP/2KR3R w - - bm Bb3; c0
>"Bb3(3)";
>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p1nppn2/8/2P1P3/N1N5/PP2BPPP/R1BQ1RK1 b - - bm b6; c0
>"b6(9)";
>[D]r1bq1rk1/1p2bppp/p1nppn2/8/2P1P3/N1N5/PP2BPPP/R1BQK2R w KQ - bm O-O; c0
>"O-O(9)";
>
>The value in parenthesis indicates how many times that move was played.  For all
>the moves in this file, it was the only choice made by everyone who arrived at
>that position.
>
>At one second per position, Ruffian 2.0.2 gets 56% right on my machine (950 MHz
>Athlon).



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