Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:38:24 10/30/99
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On October 30, 1999 at 18:08:32, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 30, 1999 at 10:08:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I don't see how you can say that. The current 'evolution' was in place and >>documented in 1988. And used in HiTech for (Campbell). Larry Kaufman already >>had used it, and had test positions to rate a chess program (the infamous CCR >>tests). He could look at the depth you found a solution and tell you whether >>you used R=1, R=2, recursive, non-recursive, etc. It was already well-known. > > >Do you know where one might be able to find these positions, and any >documentation about them? > >Thanks. :) > >Jeremiah Not really... but they were called the "Computer Chess Reports test positions" and were often named as CCR-1, then CCR-2 for a second revision, etc. I don't know exactly how many he did, perhaps Don is around and might remember. I think I tried at least three different ones however. If any of the old CCR's are in the web archive, they ought to be there. And they might be on any ftp site that carries test suites...
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