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Subject: Re: an example how users - not programmers - use tests

Author: Steve Glanzfeld

Date: 10:42:59 06/20/04

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On June 20, 2004 at 12:10:57, David Dahlem wrote:

>On June 19, 2004 at 12:02:19, Steve Glanzfeld wrote:

>>Users are interested in the engine's performances in such tests, simply.
>>Assingning ratings certainly isn't the main thing. Most often it is sufficient
>>to count and compare the number of solutions.

>I've seen numerous examples of one engine solving a test suite position in a few
>seconds, while another engine of known equal game playing strength never finds
>the solution, even after hours of analysis. To me, this makes test suites
>worthless, or at least very difficult to interpret the results.

As long as your test suites consist of ONLY ONE SINGLE POSITION, you're right
:)))

Steve



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