Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 22:46:06 01/19/06
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On January 19, 2006 at 23:49:59, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On January 19, 2006 at 13:47:05, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 19, 2006 at 12:23:51, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >> >>>Hi - I have reached the limit of what I can test with Fred Reinfeld's >>>Win-at-Chess suite of 300 positions. Not that I couldn't improve more >>>points on it - but that many retests reach a plateau that does not >>>change much. >>> >>>So, I want to expand to these suites: >>> >>> WAC >>> 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices >>> 1001 Brilliant Ways to Mate >>> ECO Middlegames >>> ECO Endgames >>> >>>and any others you think reasonable and prudent. My goal is a single >>>overnight 8 hour test at a few seconds per position - folded into >>>a single result with per-suite specifics as well. >>> >>>My issue is where to get the above in EPD format with the solution(s) included >>>in each EPD entry. >>> >>>I think with the larger set plus my current adding of chess knowledge to >>>terminal nodes, I will be able to make new progress in new areas and >>>not be "WAC-blind" to it. >>> >>>Thanks ahead if you know of where I can get the above or other (better) >>>suites. >> >>Most test suites are full of bugs. >>Yuriy Lyapko has a bunch of carefully debugged ones. >>You might ask him about it. >>http://www.geocities.com/lyapko/index.html > >I notice you have an extremely large selection of test suites at > >http://cap.connx.com/EPD/ > >Are you saying that none of these has relatively accurate solutions >so as to be usable in chess program testing? I do not know the accuracy of most of the tests. I have spent some time verifying some of the easy ones like WAC, but they are of limited usefulness. For any of the test sets, I expect at least 80% of the answers to be valid. ECM-GCP is verified fairly well. You could consider it as an alternative.
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