'STS' Test Suite - Available for Testing
Posted: 16 Nov 2008, 11:40Strategic Test Suite (STS) v1.0 is available for testing:
Beta version of the Test suite file will consist of 100 selected Undermining/Pawn Weakening positions - along with solutions.
This test suite is ideal for engines <2900.
This ain't suited to Rybka. Since this was _mostly_ basically taken from Rybka 3.0 4 CPU games! I think this is more ideal for testing engines other than Rybka.
I selected positions where pawn weakening/undermining happens in Rybka games. So essentially all of the 100 positions are basically _pawn_ moves.
Cut off was > +0.20. If difference in Rybka 2.2n2's analysis line from first best to second best is < 0.20 after about 1 minute of analysis then I'd not add it to the test suite. Only If it's >0.20 (and significant) then I'd add it.
Conditions for the test suite:
Time: anywhere ranging from 30 seconds to 1 minute each position.
I'm working on building up the test suites that cover these complex strategic principles:
Undermining/Pawn Weakening (Completed!)
Blockade
Outpost
Prophylxaxis
Counter Play
Simplification
Positional Sacrifice
Weaknesses
Initiative
I will release these test suites only after I finished each chapters. However, I will send betas to authors/testers interested in it.
Please either send me a pm here or send me an e-mail (nswami15 at yahoo dot com) to obtain this test suite.
Thanks in advance.
Beta version of the Test suite file will consist of 100 selected Undermining/Pawn Weakening positions - along with solutions.
This test suite is ideal for engines <2900.
This ain't suited to Rybka. Since this was _mostly_ basically taken from Rybka 3.0 4 CPU games! I think this is more ideal for testing engines other than Rybka.
I selected positions where pawn weakening/undermining happens in Rybka games. So essentially all of the 100 positions are basically _pawn_ moves.
Cut off was > +0.20. If difference in Rybka 2.2n2's analysis line from first best to second best is < 0.20 after about 1 minute of analysis then I'd not add it to the test suite. Only If it's >0.20 (and significant) then I'd add it.
Conditions for the test suite:
Time: anywhere ranging from 30 seconds to 1 minute each position.
I'm working on building up the test suites that cover these complex strategic principles:
Undermining/Pawn Weakening (Completed!)
Blockade
Outpost
Prophylxaxis
Counter Play
Simplification
Positional Sacrifice
Weaknesses
Initiative
I will release these test suites only after I finished each chapters. However, I will send betas to authors/testers interested in it.
Please either send me a pm here or send me an e-mail (nswami15 at yahoo dot com) to obtain this test suite.
Thanks in advance.