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Subject: Re: What about ratings for solving testpositions?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 13:56:10 09/30/99

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On September 30, 1999 at 15:14:43, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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.

	Check your gnuchess distribution, I think it comes with some sort of big
testsuite as Sven said. I to not think it is in epd format.
	It was so long ago when I downloaded it that I do not remember well, and of
course I delete all unnecessary files once I get a running executable.



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