Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:37:44 02/02/06
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On February 02, 2006 at 11:47:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On February 01, 2006 at 14:16:12, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>I have expanded the full suite to 50 positions (and thus a round 100 games), and
>>revised a few of the pre-existing ones. Just to be clear, this is an Openings
>>Suite, similar in purpose to the Nunn Suites 1 and 2, as well as the Noomen
>>Select suite. It is meant to be used in test matches between engines, with NO
>>BOOK used. The selection is designed to provide typical opening situations,
>>testing the range of openings as well as types of positions (closed, open,
>>hedgehog, stonewall, isolani, etc.). The positions were chosen and tested to
>>allow several possible moves, so there shouldn't be any single move to find, nor
>>should all (or almost all) engines choose the same continuation.
>>
>>I have tested the Short Suite (25 positions) amply, and have enjoyed it, though
>>it has highlighted a couple of problems that I have removed. One of these
>>problems even includes a position that most engines insist on playing a
>>positively dreadful move (Open Ruy Lopez). Below are the revised and new
>>positions, and in a later post, I will repost all the positions with diagrams,
>>and the most played, or theoretical continuations.
>>
>
>I've been using your most recent 40 position suite since you released it,
>testing the new version of crafty vs the older versions. One request: :)
>
>When you release these things, release an epd version that just has the starting
>positions in FEN. I use xboard with the -lpf option and a shell script to index
>thru the epd suite playing an even number of games with each starting position,
>and pure FEN makes this easy. I cleverly took one of your PGN files, edited it,
>and managed to screw up the castling status a couple of times, so I'd like to
>keep my fickle fingers off the files if possible.
>
>There are some pretty interesting positions in the 40 position suite by the way,
>positions that look very tame but where one side can offer a gambit that makes
>things turn quite wild, quite quickly.
Thanks, I've quite enjoyed them so far as well. I was going to oblige with your
request, but someone was kind enough to do it first:
http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?484161
Albert
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