Testing move generation

[Eli Bendersky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Eli Bendersky at 26 February 2004 14:22:49:

Hi all,
I'd like to test my engine's move generation functions. For this purposes, I made a test suite of an input file that contains FEN boards + legal moves for them and the test routine verifies the move generator against the expected results.
Is there a DB of such tests available somewhere, or can I use some free and proven-correct program to generate them?
Thanks

[Andreas Herrmann]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Andreas Herrmann at 26 February 2004 17:29:59:
Als Antwort auf: / In reply to: Testing move generation geschrieben von: / posted by: Eli Bendersky at 26 February 2004 14:22:49:

Hi all,
I'd like to test my engine's move generation functions. For this purposes, I made a test suite of an input file that contains FEN boards + legal moves for them and the test routine verifies the move generator against the expected results.
Is there a DB of such tests available somewhere, or can I use some free and proven-correct program to generate them?
Thanks

Hi,
a good possibility to test the move generator, is to implement perft. See the following link: http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~peter/perft.htm
regards
Andreas