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a series of themed test suites by Dann Corbit and Swaminathan Natarajan, designed to evaluate chess engine's long term understanding of strategical and positional concepts. More recently, the positions were revised and converted by Ferdinand Mosca to be used by an analysis tool.
 * Strategic Test Suite**, (STS)

=Themes and EPDs=
 * ~ # ||~  ||~ Theme ||~ EDP ||~ CPW Page ||
 * ~ 1 ||~  || [|Undermining] ||= [[file:STS1.epd|STS1.epd]] ||= Undermining ||
 * ~ 2 ||~  || [|Open Files and Diagonals] ||= [[file:STS2.epd|STS2.epd]] ||= Rook on Open File ||
 * ~ 3 ||~  || [|Knight Outposts] ||= [[file:STS3.epd|STS3.epd]] ||= Outposts ||
 * ~ 4 ||~  || [|Square Vacancy] ||= [[file:STS4.epd|STS4.epd]] ||= Square Control ||
 * ~ 5 ||~  || [|Bishop vs Knight] ||= [[file:STS5.epd|STS5.epd]] ||= Bishop versus Knight ||
 * ~ 6 ||~  || [|Re-Capturing] ||= [[file:STS6.epd|STS6.epd]] ||= Captures ||
 * ~ 7 ||~  || [|Offer of Simplification] ||= [[file:STS7.epd|STS7.epd]] ||= Material ||
 * ~ 8 ||~  || [|Advancement of f/g/h pawns] ||= [[file:STS8.epd|STS8.epd]] ||= Pawn Storm ||
 * ~ 9 ||~  || [|Advancement of a/b/c Pawns] ||= [[file:STS9.epd|STS9.epd]] ||= Pawn Storm ||
 * ~ 10 ||~  || [|Simplification] ||= [[file:STS10.epd|STS10.epd]] ||=   ||
 * ~ 11 ||~  || [|Activity of the King] ||= [[file:STS11.epd|STS11.epd]] ||= King Safety vs King Centralization ||
 * ~ 12 ||~  || [|Center Control] ||= [[file:STS12.epd|STS12.epd]] ||= Center Control ||
 * ~ 13 ||~  || [|Pawn Play in the Center] ||= [[file:STS13.epd|STS13.epd]] ||= Pawn Center ||
 * ~ 14 ||~  || [|Queens and Rooks to the 7th Rank] ||= [[file:STS14.epd|STS14.epd]] ||= Rook on Seventh ||
 * ~ 15 ||~  || [|Avoid Pointless Exchange] ||= [[file:STS15.epd|STS15.epd]] ||=   ||

=Forum Posts=

STS

 * [|'STS' Test Suite - Available for Testing] by Swaminathan, CCC, November 15, 2008
 * [|STS v2.0 - "Open Files and Diagonals"] by Swaminathan, CCC, April 04, 2009
 * [|STS v3.0 - "Knight Outposts/Centralization/Repositioning"] by Swaminathan, CCC, June 03, 2009
 * [|STS v4.0 - "Square Vacancy"] by Swaminathan, CCC, July 14, 2009
 * [|STS v6.0 - "Re-Capturing"] by Swaminathan, CCC, September 22, 2009
 * [|STS v7.0 - "Offer of Simplification"] by Swaminathan, CCC, November 04, 2009
 * [|STS v8.0 - "Advancement of f/g/h Pawns"] by Swaminathan, CCC, December 23, 2009
 * [|STS v9.0 - "Advancement of a/b/c Pawns"] by Swaminathan, CCC, January 19, 2010
 * [|STS v10.0 - "Simplification"] by Swaminathan, CCC, March 13, 2010
 * [|STS v11.0 - "Activity of the King"] by Swaminathan, CCC, July 15, 2010
 * [|STS v12.0 - "Center Control"] by Swaminathan, CCC, July 15, 2010
 * [|STS v13.0 - "Pawn Play in the Center"] by Swaminathan, CCC, October 08, 2010
 * [|STS v14.0 - "Queens and rooks to the 7th"] by Swaminathan, CCC, May 11, 2011
 * [|STS 15 - Avoid Pointless Exchange] by Swaminathan, CCC, April 02, 2014

Misc

 * [|STS 1.0 revisited] by Thomas Mayer, CCC, January 07, 2010
 * [|Q for Dann and Swami] by David B. Weller, CCC, October 22, 2010
 * [|Bug in Strategic Test Suite (STS 11)] by Richard Vida, CCC, November 05, 2010
 * [|Questions about STS stat] by Chao Ma, CCC, January 30, 2012
 * [|STS Stat and Arena 3.5] by Eric Oldre, CCC, July 17, 2014
 * [|STS 1-15 epd and analysis tool] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 20, 2015
 * [|STS test suite and engine analysis interface] by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, June 11, 2015
 * [|STS Test Results] by Michael B, CCC, June 14, 2015 » Crafty

=External Links=
 * [|Strategic Test Suite]

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