Help with test suites

[Carlos Pagador]

Hello everyone,

In your experience, what is the best way to run an epd test suite for lets say Rybka 1.0 Beta?

Using a program, like Arena or maybe the epd Lyapko's tool or something else?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Carlos

[Nicolai Czempin]

Hello everyone,

In your experience, what is the best way to run an epd test suite for lets say Rybka 1.0 Beta?

Using a program, like Arena or maybe the epd Lyapko's tool or something else?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Carlos

Well, I'm happy with Arena, except it sometimes hangs after a few hundred positions.

The only other ways I tried were EPD2WB (via Polyglot to test my then-UCI-only engine) and Gradualtest. After discovering the feature in Arena (which I use for my engine-engine tournaments as well) I never looked for anything else.

[Carlos Pagador]

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you for the reply. I used Arena 1.1 for running epd tests (BWTC) with some engines, but I would also like to get more analysis information of each position. Arena creates a text file with the final evaluation for each position. BTW, what version of Arena do you use?

[Nicolai Czempin]

Hi Nicolai,

Thank you for the reply. I used Arena 1.1 for running epd tests (BWTC) with some engines, but I would also like to get more analysis information of each position. Arena creates a text file with the final evaluation for each position. BTW, what version of Arena do you use?

Arena creates a log file and a report. The report only contains the move and the time, the log contains much more.

I use Arena 1.1 exclusively.

[Roger Brown]

Arena creates a log file and a report. The report only contains the move and the time, the log contains much more.

I use Arena 1.1 exclusively.

Hmmmmmm.........


Later.

[Nicolai Czempin]

Arena creates a log file and a report. The report only contains the move and the time, the log contains much more.

I use Arena 1.1 exclusively.

Hmmmmmm.........


Later.

Ooops. [and where's the blushing smiley when you need it]

Now that I know how to set up my engine for Winboard, I'll be using it more and more, because of the friendly and intelligent community that surrounds it that I really want to support. I didn't add WB to my engine for fun, but out of respect and admiration for all you guys (and gals?).

*Cough.*

Seriously, I use Arena exclusively for tournaments and test suites. But now that I have added WB support, naturally I need to test more with "the mother of chess GUIs".

[Nicolai Czempin]

Arena creates a log file and a report. The report only contains the move and the time, the log contains much more.

I use Arena 1.1 exclusively.

Hmmmmmm.........


Later.

Ooops. [and where's the blushing smiley when you need it]

Now that I know how to set up my engine for Winboard, I'll be using it more and more, because of the friendly and intelligent community that surrounds it that I really want to support. I didn't add WB to my engine for fun, but out of respect and admiration for all you guys (and gals?).

*Cough.*

Seriously, I use Arena exclusively for tournaments and test suites. But now that I have added WB support, naturally I need to test more with "the mother of chess GUIs".

But what I really meant was "I use version 1.1 exclusively, i. e. not version 1.02 or 1.99beta"