Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 12:35:09 10/25/99
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> Has anyone written a kind of "here is the reason the solution is > the best move" document about this test suite or any test suite? There is a book "Test Your Positional Play" by Robert Bellini and Pietro Ponzetto (1985 Macmillan Publishing Company, ISBN 0-02-028090-4) with 30 strategy test positions from real games. The first part of the book (60 pages) describes techniques for analyzing positions, creating and executing plans, positional evaluations, etc. The second part of the book (about 130 pages) contains the 30 positions, with 4 pages of systematic analysis per position. For each position the initial 2 pages propose 3 plans, each giving the best argument for the plans A, B or C. Then the 2 page solution critiques the plans and explains why the one chosen is the best. (It also shows the rest of the game so you can see how the plan unfolded.) Each of the 3 plans carries the points and a chart at the end of the book gives you the ratings equivalent of the obtained point score. Even though this book was meant for human players, I think it would be an excellent positional tune-up tool for the chess programs. Although I didn't have time for a systematic test of the existent top programs, they generally did poorly on the few random positions I tried. Perhaps there is an EPD of this test suite on the web and someone with enough time to play with it can obtain the positional ratings for the existent programs at few different time levels.
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