Sanny: Do you want more test positions?

External Since: Jul 03, 2008 Posts: 92

Sanny;

I meant to ask you this last week before I left, but I got busy...

Do you want any more test positions to go along with the WAC you are
currently using?

I was thinking I could browse around the web and Dann's collection and see
what I could find that might be useful.

(Incidentally, Dann has a lot of EPD tests at http://cap.connx.com/EPD/ but
most of them are pretty difficult positions.)

I'm thinking perhaps shallow tactics, simple mates, and maybe a few
contrived test positions.

Things that should be simple enough that your beginner level should get 90%
on, with the remainder probably being deeper mates.

Nothing truely complicated. Simple enough that a program shouldn't miss
them.

They might make a good self check test suite. Something you can run after
ever change to the program and if something fails, then it means you broke
something.

Would you be interested?

It would take me at least a week to come up with some (busy with other
things), but if you are interested, I'm willing to see what I can find.

If anybody else has some good basic test positions, feel free to post them
too.

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External Since: Apr 16, 2007 Posts: 852

> Would you be interested?
>
> It would take me at least a week to come up with some (busy with other
> things), but if you are interested, I'm willing to see what I can find.
>

Yes, do send them. But in the same format as the WAC test.

I have not tested WAC recently. I think I should first test the WAC
again as the game was corrected recently.

I have to see how good the Beginner Level is at WAC test now. I will
do the test tommorow.

Bye
Sanny

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