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Subject: Re: WAC long analysis results available

Author: Steven Edwards

Date: 03:18:10 04/23/05

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On April 23, 2005 at 01:33:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On April 22, 2005 at 21:21:07, Steven Edwards wrote:

>>Symbolic's toolkit has just finished a one hour per position analysis of the 300
>>position WAC (Win At Chess) test suite.  In 82 of the problems, a forced mating
>>sequence was found.  The program solved 299 of the positions and missed one
>>(#230).
>>
>>The analysis is available for download at:
>>
>>  http://www.geocities.com/chessnotation/Analysis/WAC-3600.epd.gz
>>
>>To find the mating solutions, type:
>>
>>  grep Mate WAC-3600.epd
>
>The code pes seems to be new and used non-uniformly.
>
>What does pes represent?

The EPD mnemonic "pes" means "pawn evaluation symbol" and is a replacement for
"ce" (centipawn evaluation).  It is the expectatation in signed decimal pawns
with symbols used for special evaluations like mates, losses, even, unknown,
etc.



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