Test-Positions

toc
 * Home * Engine Testing * Test-Positions**

There are several classical and new developed test-position suites available as =Test Suites= add more...
 * Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN)
 * Extended Position Description (EPD)
 * Portable Game Notation (PGN)
 * Bratko-Kopec Test (BK-Test)
 * CCR One Hour Test by Larry Kaufman
 * Eigenmann Endgame Test
 * Kaufman Test
 * LCT II
 * The Nolot Suite
 * Null Move Test-Positions
 * Silent but deadly an EPD test by Dann Corbit that is designed to help tune chess engines (2008)
 * Strategic Test Suite by Dann Corbit and Swaminathan
 * Win at Chess

=Studies and famous Positions=
 * Behting Study
 * Djaja Study
 * HAKMEM 70
 * Lasker-Reichhelm Position (Fine #70)
 * Réti Endgame Study
 * Szén Position
 * [|Saavedra position]

=Other Test Suites=  =Opening Suites=
 * [|Amundsen chess program | Testsuites] collected by John Bergbom » Amundsen
 * [|Arasan Test Suite] by Jon Dart » Arasan
 * [|Big Book Of Combinations (long post)] by Jouni Uski, CCC, September 17, 2001
 * [|BT-2450] at [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German), [|BT2450.zip]
 * [|BT-2630] at [|Schachcomputer.info - Wiki] (German), [|BT2630.zip]
 * [|CCC-I test set] by Ed Schröder, CCC, October 04, 1997
 * [|CCC-II test set] by Ed Schröder, CCC, October 04, 1997
 * [|CCC-III (positional test)] by Ed Schröder, CCC, October 06, 1997
 * [|Colditz test suite] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 30, 2016
 * [|CSS WM-Test] hosted by Steffen A. Jakob, [|css-wm.epd]
 * [|ECM.epd] from Renze Steenhuisen's [|projects]
 * [|Endgame testsuite - final version + pgn with comments] by Sune Larsson, CCC, January 01, 2006
 * [|My Positional Test Suite] by Tony Hedlund
 * [|New Zugzwang Testsuite] by Robert Allgeuer, CCC, October 14, 2004 » Zugzwang
 * [|Passed Pawn Suite] by Howard Exner, CCC, February 24, 2000 » Passed Pawn
 * [|Quicktest] by Michael Scheidl
 * [|Test] by Kurt Utzinger
 * [|Test suites for chess software] by Emil Vlasák
 * [|Test Suites from Hossa - A Chess Program] by Steffen A. Jakob
 * [|Tests] by Pierre Nolot from [|blitzchess.fr] (French)
 * [|Zugzwang Test Suite ZPTS - updated version and results of Fruit] by Robert Allgeuer, CCC, October 19, 2004 » Zugzwang

Banks

 * [|Graham2014-1.cgb opening book for ChessGUI] by Graham Banks, CCC, December 19, 2013 » ChessGUI

Hyatt

 * [|Hyatt_4000_openings.epd]
 * [|Robert_Hyatt_testing_suite_2807_positions.epd]

Lacrosse

 * [|Fast engine testing : the MLmfl test] by Marc Lacrosse, January 08, 2007

Nebula

 * [|Test Sets - Nebula Chess] by Dragan Zdravkovic

Noomen

 * [|Noomen Testsuites, Noomen Testsuite] from Rybka - Free downloads by Jeroen Noomen
 * [|New testsuite: UltraShort Lines] by Jeroen Noomen, Rybka Forum, June 03, 2017
 * [|New testsuite: King's Indian Mar del Plata] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, June 22, 2017
 * [|Updated Mar del Plata testsuite, NEW Ruy Lopez testsuite] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, July 04, 2017
 * [|Mar del Plata II testsuite] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, July 08, 2017
 * [|New testsuite: Slav Defence (plus link to all my testsuites)] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, July 19, 2017
 * [|New: Noomen 2-move Testsuite] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, October 22, 2017 » TCEC Season 10

Nunn

 * [|Nunn openings] by Jouni Uski, CCC, November 07, 2005
 * [|Nunn2 openings] by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, November 07, 2005

Pohl

 * [|SALC V5 openings and books launched] by Stefan Pohl, CCC, January 13, 2018

Silver
include page="Silver Openings Suite to include" =Publications=

1950 ...

 * [|Fred Reinfeld] (**1958, 2001**). //Win at Chess//. Dover Books on Chess » Win at Chess

1970 ...

 * [|F. Donald Bloss] (**1973**). //[|Rate your own Chess]//. Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.
 * Gary L. Ratliff (**1979**). //Practical Rating Program//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 9, pp. 62 » Bloss
 * Frieder Schwenkel (**1979**). //Berating the ratings system//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 11, pp. 77 » Ratliff, Bloss
 * John Shaposka (**1979**). //"JS" Takes the Bloss Test//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 75 » Ratliff, Bloss
 * Editor (**1979**). //Chess Ratings from Problem Solving//. Personal Computing, Vol. 3, No. 12, pp. 77 » CAPS II, Chess Problems, Compositions and Studies

1980 ...

 * Floyd R. Kirk (**1980**). //Bloss Flunks Test//. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 8, pp. 72 » Ratliff, Bloss
 * W. W. Foster (**1980**). //Six Test Problems for Chess Playing Machines//. Personal Computing, Vol. 4, No. 10, pp. 81
 * Ivan Bratko, Danny Kopec (**1982**). //A Test for Comparison of Human and Computer Performance in Chess//. Advances in Computer Chess 3

1990 ...

 * Tony Marsland (**1990**). //The Bratko-Kopec Test Revisited.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1
 * Kevin J. Lang, Warren D. Smith (**1993**). //A Test Suite for Chess Programs//. [|ps], [|ChessTest2.tar.Z]
 * Shawn Benn, Danny Kopec (**1993**). //The Bratko-Kopec Test Recalibrated.// ICCA Journal, Vol. 16, No. 3, [|pdf]
 * Larry Kaufman (**1994**). //The One-Hour CCR Test//. Computer Chess Reports, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 25-30

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * [|The new YAZGAC - test-suite] by mclane, rgcc, April 15, 1997
 * [|ECM - first 100 problems summary] by Don Dailey, CCC, February 01, 1998
 * [|Needed really good tactical test suite: here's one!] by Jouni Uski, CCC, August 16, 1998
 * [|And here is corrected ECM testsuite (15 wrong positions removed)] by Jouni Uski, CCC, October 11, 1998
 * [|Test suites - can they reliably predict ELO?] by Tom King, CCC, December 11, 1999

2000 ...

 * [|The Scalable Search Test] by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, June 18, 2000
 * [|Mate in 1 - but Fritz 6 needs 1 hour!!!] by Christoph Fieberg from CCC, August 10, 2000
 * [|Pawn endgame test suite] by Peter McKenzie, CCC, October 07, 2000 » Pawn Endgame
 * [|Stalemate trap(SOS-Delfi)] by George Lyapko, Winboard Forum, December 18, 2001 » Stalemate, SOS, Delfi
 * [|STATIC EVAL TEST (provisional)] by Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz, CCC, February 21, 2004 » Evaluation
 * [|Test Position = GM Tony Miles vs Deep Thought, 1989 [14...Bxh2!!]] by José Antônio Fabiano Mendes, CCC, September 09, 2004 » Deep Thought

2005 ...

 * [|Trying to improve MES endgame suite] by George Lyapko, Winboard Forum, September 30, 2005
 * [| Problem suite testing - how to extract a useful number] by Don Dailey from CCC, May 25, 2008

2010 ...

 * [|Zugzwang Collection] by kingliveson, OpenChess Forum, February 14, 2012 » Zugzwang
 * [|Arasan test suite additions] by Jon Dart, CCC, December 20, 2012 » Arasan
 * [|Openings in PGN and EPD format] by Adam Hair, CCC, December 24, 2013
 * [|A new testsuite] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, June 21, 2014
 * [|New testsuite available] by Jeroen Noomen, CCC, November 13, 2014

2015 ...
> [|Re: Static evaluation test posistions] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, November 26, 2015 » Python > [|EPD to test EGTB probe code] by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, May 24, 2016
 * [|Noomen selected openings for eng-eng matches] by Ed Schröder, CCC, May 31, 2015 » Opening Suites
 * [|Transposition table test positons] by Robert Pope, CCC, September 11, 2015 » Transposition Table
 * [|Test positions for draw detection] by Shawn Chidester, CCC, September 27, 2015 » Draw
 * [|Static evaluation test posistions] by Shawn Chidester, CCC, November 25, 2015
 * [|Test suites] by Fabio Gobbato, CCC, December 04, 2015
 * [|Larsen EPD Test Suite] by Marc Moisan, CCC, December 29, 2015
 * 2016**
 * [|king safety: hard positions for zurichess] by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 27, 2016 » King Safety, Zurichess
 * [|Good testsets for tablebases testing] by Sergei S. Markoff, CCC, May 15, 2016 » Endgame Tablebases
 * [|13 hard test positions July 2016] by Vincent Lejeune, CCC, July 27, 2016
 * [|perpetual check position] by Erin Dame, CCC, August 16, 2016 » Perpetual Check, Repetitions
 * [|Arasan test suite] by Jon Dart, CCC, August 22, 2016 » Arasan
 * [|Nightmare II (Test-Set)] by Walter Eigenmann, CCC, August 25, 2016
 * [|SAN test position] by Matthew Lai, CCC, September 11, 2016 » SAN
 * [|"Poor Fish": very hard test suite] by Marco Costalba, CCC, September 25, 2016
 * [|Opening performance of engines] by Kai Laskos, CCC, October 28, 2016 » Opening
 * [|Colditz test suite] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, December 30, 2016
 * 2017**
 * [|Bob Hyatt's opening set of positions] by Stuart Cracraft, CCC, March 19, 2017
 * [|Tony's positional test suite] by Dann Corbit, CCC, June 16, 2017
 * [|Opening testing suites efficiency] by Kai Laskos, CCC, June 21, 2017 » Engine Testing, Opening, Match Statistics
 * [|"IQ test" for engines] by Marek Kwiatkowski, CCC, August 08, 2017
 * [|"IQ test" for engines (2)] by Marek Kwiatkowski, CCC, October 21, 2017
 * [|AlphaZero: The 10 Top Shots] by Walter Eigenmann, CCC, December 30, 2017 » AlphaZero
 * 2018**
 * [|Marcel Duchamp endgame "splits" engines / hash phenomenon] by Kenneth Regan, CCC, February 19, 2018 » Chess Problems, Compositions and Studies, Marcel Duchamp, Transposition Table

Albert Silver's Test positions
include page="Test positions by Albert Silver to include" 

Leonid's Positions
include page="Leonid's Positions to include" =References= =What links here?= include component="backlinks" page="Test-Positions" limit="120"
 * Up one Level**