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Subject: Re: What about ratings for solving testpositions?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:11:50 09/29/99

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On September 29, 1999 at 17:39:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?

The test was defined with 24 positions.  There are no more.

Dave



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