A Test Suite for Chess Programs

نویسندگان

  • Kevin J. Lang
  • Warren D. Smith
چکیده

| We describe a suite of 5500 test positions for testing chess playing programs. They are available as pub/wds/ChessTest.tar.Z by anonymous ftp to external.NJ.NEC.COM. Almost all of these positions are unoriginal and were obtained by scanning in diagrams from chessbooks with an optical scanner. Gnuchess 4.0, at one minute per move on a 50 MHz MIPS R4000, scores 16-71% on our testtles. We describe the software we wrote to accomplish the scanning task. If you take the test, please send us (Email: [email protected]) the results, the testee's name and estimated USCF rating, and notify us of any corrections in the test set.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • ICGA Journal

دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1993