RE: [Bug-gnubg] [Q] EvaluatePosition(), Utility(), and testing boards

[Ian Shaw]

Thomas Hauk wrote on October 08, 2003 12:57 AM
> 
> Thanks for the quick responses!
> 
> > I think Joseph Heled has a set of test positions used for 
> training and
> > testing the net. Otherwise, no, I don't know of any benchmarks sets.
> 
> Joseph, if you're reading this, could you contact me about 
> your set of 
> test positions as soon as possible?
> 
Joseph is apparently on holiday for a couple of months. However, I have
a large chunk of his position database, since I did a lot of the
rollouts. I have positions in the following categories: Race, Contact,
Crashed, Doubles. Contact is probably the most general category.

Would you like me to send you a sample to play with? There is, however,
a problem. The position ID used in the scripts is NOT the gnubg position
ID. Joseph mentioned once that they could be converted with a script
(python?). He offered to write one, but I didn't take him up on it. 

The rest of the file format is described here: 
http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/pepe/ngb/index-top.html
http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/pepe/ngb/src/index-top.html#GNU%20rollou
t%20program

Does anyone know how to convert Joseph's ID to the gnubg ID? This is a
typical position LHNJCFAEAAOLAAAAMAAA
It looks like the source is available, so perhaps you can extract the
format from that.

-- Ian