Author: Stuart Cracraft
Date: 18:34:45 01/20/06
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On January 20, 2006 at 01:46:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Thanks - it's now test #2 for TeeDee - ran with it at 1 and 5 seconds. Looks much more challenging. What does the GCP stand for? Stuart
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