Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 01:25:00 02/10/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 22:58:41, Dann Corbit wrote: >Mike Byrne over on r.g.c.c. just found two more (he found a total of five!) >negative checkmates in the first twenty rows from the rockpile. No wonder they >are so hard to solve -- they have no solution. ;-) > >It is rather amazing how many of these problems have less than ideal answers. > >For quite some time people have been basing the strength of their computer >programs by running against batteries of these tests, as one measure of ELO. > >Maybe we need to look over the tests very carefully. It could be that an 80% >score is 100% right and a 100% score is 20% wrong! > >Maybe you have thought -- darn it! My program keeps getting the wrong answer >on this problem! > >OTOH, maybe your program was right all along. I don't understand what the suite is supposed to represent. Some suites are presented as "hard problems", and I thought that is what this was. But it seems like a lot of them are more like "broken problems", and all running the thing for an half-hour or so per position does is waste time. bruce
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