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Subject: Re: looking for difficult test suites in PGN format

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 07:44:17 10/27/05

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On October 27, 2005 at 09:29:39, Jon Dart wrote:

>On October 27, 2005 at 05:03:18, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>the program i want to test has no EPD import but maybe it works
>>with FEN in PGN ??
>
>Try Arena (http://www.playwitharena.com) - it can read EPD
>and drive the engine to analyze it.
>
>>
>>has anyone tough positions or knows how to get them into the prgram without
>>manually set up everything ?
>
>The positions I use are available at
>http://www.arasanchess.org/tests.zip
>
>--Jon

Is there a test suite that will give an accurate and reliable estimate of engine
strength or improvement? My results on test suites has been very disappointing.
The version that scores best on suites always plays worse in actual games. :-)

Regards
Dave



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