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Subject: Re: Experts' acknowledgements (WM test)

Author: Randall Shane

Date: 19:17:43 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 18:40:50, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:

>The following computerchess experts give attention to the WM test (which was so
>controversely discussed here) on their websites, have linked to it or are
>offering downloads for it:
>
>The North American Computer Chess Association
>(by endgame tables pioneer Steven J. Edwards):
>http://homepage.mac.com/chessnotation/TSD.html
>
>CSS, a german computerchess magazine
>(which has reported about the test in five print issues):
>http://www.computerschach.de/test/index.htm
>
>The WinBoard Forum, presenting M.Meiler in it's gallery:
>http://bilder11.parsimony.net/forum16635/mmeiler.html
>
>M.Pillen, a computerchess expert of Germany
>(has run a large tournament based on the test positions):
>http://www.mpillen.de/Mapi/WM_Test_100/wm_test_100.html
>
>A.Schwartmann, another computerchess expert of Germany:
>http://www.andreas-schwartmann.de/chess.html
>
>Alexander Schmidt, expert for UCI engines:
>http://www.uciengines.de/
>
>If YOU are featuring the WM test on your homepage too, please add your URL to
>the list. I guess you wouldn't link to a test which you consider to be flawed,
>invalid and useless! :-)
>
>Let's re-install some common sense again here, by that.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve


You seem to be implying that including a link to the test is an endorsement of
the validity of the WM test.    Several of the pages above list it as one of
many links for various tests (hardly featuring it), some other pages are by the
authors of the test.

I don't know enough to provide an analysis of the test or to have a solid
opinion either way, but it seems to me that the proper way to evaluate the test
would be to evaluate the accuracy of the test and its positions, not to count
the pages that link to a copy of it.




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