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Subject: Re: What about ratings for solving testpositions?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:14:43 09/30/99

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On September 30, 1999 at 12:42:54, Sven Reichard wrote:
>There is an extended test suite, maybe under a different name (SAN-suite?)
>consisting of several thousand positions. It comes with the distribution of
>either crafty or GNUchess (I don't remember which).
>I think, for internal evaluation, this is quite useful. You can compare your
>(engine's) result with others, if you have some time: You are asked to let the
>program think on each position for a minute; this takes a total of 75h cpu.

I have both the latest iteration of Crafty and of GNUChess.  Neither came with a
several thousand position test suite.  I do have about 8000 positions I have
collected myself from various sources.  I am always interested in new chess
problems, which is why I asked.



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