Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:27:41 08/27/99
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On August 27, 1999 at 08:02:46, Terry Ripple wrote: >On August 27, 1999 at 07:43:51, Chris Taylor wrote: > >>I am thinking of running a set of games from random start up positions? >>And would like some suggestions on different starts to begin with! If any one >>has some fischer positions they can send me I will start this weekend? Is there >>a large number of initial positions? Guess Twenty would be a large enough >>number to start a test set, for the various programs! >> >>Is this a good idea, or bad?? >> >>Would this be of any use whatsoever? >> >>All the engines I have, that I can run, will be on the Fritz interface, and will >>be on two machines, level 40/40, or game in 1 hour! This should be enough time >>to give an indication of playing strenth. Seeing how both programs will be on >>thier own from the very start! >> >>Chris Taylor >>Notts >>England > >Hi Chris, > Are you aware of the 10 Nunn Test Positions that come with Hiarcs7.32 which >uses the Fritz interface, so Fritz probaly has the same! The opening test >positions were chosen because each position is supposed to be equall from that >particular opening. I believe that you are suppose to play 2 games from each >test position so each engine will get white and black and so you will then have >a total of 20 games for your tests! > >Regards,Terry There's several Fischer Random position generators that you can download, if you do a search then you should be able to find one, I think I even have the source code to one of them beleive it or not, somewhat related, the old Gromit program the one that has it's own interface (as I recall, not a bad program at all) is able to set up the board in Fischer Random positions, I don't know if they were generated at the time or if the program just had a collection of them ready to pop in there, but if you're interested in random Chess then you might want to get that program. Pete
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