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Subject: Re: What about ratings for solving testpositions?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:39:33 09/29/99

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On September 29, 1999 at 17:34:38, Sven Reichard wrote:

>On September 29, 1999 at 09:24:55, Jari Huikari wrote:
>
>>My CM3000 gives an approximation of humans rating according to how
>>he/she can find best moves in series of positions.
>>
>>How good approximation for a program strenght this kind of method would be?
>>
>>
>>					Jari
>To be consistent, the set of positions would have to be constant over some time;
>and if the set is rather small, it is no problem to tune a program to do well on
>them.
>This approach is taken in the Bratko-Kopec test, originally a very small sample,
>but now a huge collection of positions with well-defined best moves. I'm not
>sure they return a value in terms of ELO.

I only have 24 EPD positions for the Bratko-Kopec test suite.  Are there more?
If so, where can I find them?




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