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Subject: Re: an idea how to generate a tactical test suite

Author: blass uri

Date: 15:08:38 09/08/99

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On September 08, 1999 at 12:48:03, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 08, 1999 at 06:31:41, blass uri wrote:
>
>>I suggest to analyze comp-comp games from wccc(one hour per move)(it is possible
>>to do it by Fritz engines).
>>
>>the tactical test suite can be to avoid all the blunders that the engines found.
>>
>>analyzing one game is some days for one computer and we have 106 games from
>>wccc(I include the last draw between shredder and ferret).
>>
>>We need more than a year of computer time to generate this test.
>One hour per move is mostly a waste unless there is something special about the
>move.  Since the payoff takes exponential effort to get better, you will be
>fortunate to get one ply more than ten minutes of effort (which is another
>reason why I chose 12 minutes).
>
>It would take C.A.P. just a short time to analyze the games, especially since a
>large fraction of the data will be already analyzed.  But there is nothing
>particularly compelling about these games is there?  If we had human analysis to
>add on top of it, I think it would be very worthwhile.
>
>The less than optimal moves most of the programs made I think were largely bugs
>in the openings database files some of them used.
>
>If you want a tactical suite, you can get about 8000 test positions that have
>been carefully analyzed from my ftp site under /public_cap_data

I want tactical suite from practical games and not from positions that were
propsed by humans because I think that avoiding tactical mistakes from
practical games is more relevant to evaluate the tactical ability of chess
programs relative to positions that were proposed by humans.

I believe that humans like sacrifices so the relevant moves is a sacrifice in
most of the cases when practically there is often a tactical idea that is not a
sacrifice.

Uri



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