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Strategic Test Suite, (STS)
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 ^[1] .

Themes and EPDs

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

References

1. ^ STS test suite and engine analysis interface by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, June 11, 2015
2. ^ Strategic Test Suite
3. ^ Revised STS EPDs by Ferdinand Mosca, Re: STS 1-15 epd and analysis tool by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, May 20, 2015

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