STS (v11.0) - "Activity of the King"

[Swaminathan]

Version 11 of the Strategic Test Suite series is now available for download.

* Consists of carefully selected 100 test positions on "Activity of the King"

Information:

This test covers all king movements prior or after the castling. Idea of this is to test whether it's appropriate to bring the king forward for the battle, or to move the king to a more defensive square.

I accepted king moves that were made in late middle game to early endgame, especially moves where king can be used as

* an active defender,
* an aggressive attacker with respect to assisting pawns,
* a space restrictor,
* a blockader.


I rejected positions in endings where there are very less pieces left on board. I also rejected castling moves, and king moves that were made after "check".

Download it! here:

https://sites.google.com/site/strategic ... f-the-king

Test Suite release time: 15th of July, 2010
Swaminathan and Dann Corbit

[Swaminathan]

Using Mathias's wonderful tool (Piece EPD 1.0), the piece specific epd's is updated:

https://sites.google.com/site/strategic ... ific-epd-s