Author: David Dahlem
Date: 16:19:11 12/17/03
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On December 17, 2003 at 17:40:09, Mike S. wrote:
>On December 17, 2003 at 15:00:28, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>(...) Does anyone know if there is a collection of test positions
>>with his known best moves?
>
Hi Mike
Many thanks. I've starting building a testsuite, mostly by going through the
Fischer games in "The World's Greatest Chess Games" and including the moves
marked with double exclamation marks (!!) and some with single exclamation
marks. I'll add your positions to my suite, i'm sure there may be some
duplicates. If you would like to have this suite when it's completed, let me
know.
Regards
Dave
>Many years ago, I compiled a small testsuite which I called "Fischer-Test" for
>computerchess, with 10 positions from games from the 60 Memorable. It was
>published in a local chessclub magazine.
>
>Unfortunately, many of these positions will be too easy nowadays, and some
>dubious (i.e. if there isn't an alternative continuation which is at least as
>good as the intended one and other things). Today, I apply "higher standards" to
>test positions, or at least I try to. :-)) But some are still ok I think.
>
>It's an old test suite, but maybe you find something interesting nevertheless.
>Btw. I still use no. 5 with the avoid move Qxe4? Unzicker must not play (and
>didn't; a small variation 33...b4 34 c4 was inserted for better clarity of the
>test position). No. 3 is also ok, a normal (quite short) combination in an
>endgame. No. 4 could be used without tbs., to see if an engine knows the "blind
>bishop" motif.
>
>(complete EPD & PGN below)
>
>[D]1rb2rk1/p4ppp/1p1qpnn1/6N1/2pP3P/2P3P1/PPQ2PB1/R1B1R1K1 w - - bm Nxh7;
>[D]5r2/2pbn1k1/1p1p3p/p2P1p1R/2P2P2/PP1BN1P1/5K2/8 b - - bm Be8;
>[D]6k1/2R2p1p/5rp1/8/6P1/P2bRB2/1r5P/7K b - - bm Rxf3;
>[D]8/6k1/8/5PK1/4b1B1/7P/8/8 b - - bm Bxf5;
>[D]4r2k/3n3p/2q3p1/2p1p1Q1/1pP1P3/1P6/5PP1/R2B2K1 b - - am Qxe4;
>[D]2r3k1/pp1b1p2/1q1pp1p1/2r3Pn/4P3/1BN2Q2/PPP5/1K1R3R w - - bm Rxh5;
>[D]2b1k1r1/1pqp1pPp/r3pQ2/1p6/5P2/6P1/1PP1B2P/1K1R3R w - - bm Bh5;
>[D]4k2r/r2n1p1p/pq3p2/4pN2/Q1B1p3/4P2P/PP4P1/3R2K1 w - - bm Rd6;
>[D]r3qr1k/pp3pbp/2pn4/7Q/3pP3/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R4RK1 w - - bm Rf6;
>[D]8/r1p1kp2/1p2n1p1/2nRp2p/4P2P/P4P2/1P3NP1/5BK1 w - - am Rxe5;
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
>
>
>1rb2rk1/p4ppp/1p1qpnn1/6N1/2pP3P/2P3P1/PPQ2PB1/R1B1R1K1 w - - bm Nxh7;
>5r2/2pbn1k1/1p1p3p/p2P1p1R/2P2P2/PP1BN1P1/5K2/8 b - - bm Be8;
>6k1/2R2p1p/5rp1/8/6P1/P2bRB2/1r5P/7K b - - bm Rxf3;
>8/6k1/8/5PK1/4b1B1/7P/8/8 b - - bm Bxf5;
>4r2k/3n3p/2q3p1/2p1p1Q1/1pP1P3/1P6/5PP1/R2B2K1 b - - am Qxe4;
>2r3k1/pp1b1p2/1q1pp1p1/2r3Pn/4P3/1BN2Q2/PPP5/1K1R3R w - - bm Rxh5;
>2b1k1r1/1pqp1pPp/r3pQ2/1p6/5P2/6P1/1PP1B2P/1K1R3R w - - bm Bh5;
>4k2r/r2n1p1p/pq3p2/4pN2/Q1B1p3/4P2P/PP4P1/3R2K1 w - - bm Rd6;
>r3qr1k/pp3pbp/2pn4/7Q/3pP3/2NB3P/PPP3P1/R4RK1 w - - bm Rf6;
>8/r1p1kp2/1p2n1p1/2nRp2p/4P2P/P4P2/1P3NP1/5BK1 w - - am Rxe5;
>
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1957.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Sherwin"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B30"]
>[PlyCount "65"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d3 Nc6 4. g3 Nf6 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Nbd2 Rb8 8. Re1
>d6 9. c3 b6 10. d4 Qc7 11. e5 Nd5 12. exd6 Bxd6 13. Ne4 c4 14. Nxd6 Qxd6 15.
>Ng5 Nce7 16. Qc2 Ng6 17. h4 Nf6 {#Testposition 1} 18. Nxh7 $1 Nxh7 19. h5 Nh4
>20. Bf4 Qd8 21. gxh4 Rb7 22. h6 Qxh4 23. hxg7 Kxg7 24. Re4 Qh5 25. Re3 f5 26.
>Rh3 Qe8 27. Be5+ Nf6 28. Qd2 Kf7 29. Qg5 Qe7 30. Bxf6 Qxf6 31. Rh7+ Ke8 32.
>Qxf6 Rxh7 33. Bc6+ 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1958.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Petrosjan"]
>[Black "Fischer"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>[ECO "A16"]
>[PlyCount "133"]
>
>1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. d3 Nh5 8. d4
>e5 9. d5 Ne7 10. e4 f5 11. exf5 gxf5 12. Nxe5 Nxg3 13. hxg3 Bxe5 14. f4 Bg7 15.
>Be3 Bd7 16. Bd4 Ng6 17. Re1 Rf7 18. Bf3 Qf8 19. Kf2 Re8 20. Rxe8 Qxe8 21. Bxg7
>Rxg7 22. Qd4 b6 23. Rh1 a5 24. Nd1 Qf8 25. Ne3 Rf7 26. b3 Qg7 27. Qxg7+ Kxg7
>28. a3 Rf8 29. Be2 Ne7 30. Bd3 h6 31. Rh5 {#Testposition 2} 31... Be8 $1 32.
>Rh2 Bd7 33. Rh1 Rh8 34. Nc2 Kf6 35. Nd4 Kg7 36. Be2 Ng8 37. b4 Nf6 38. Bd3 axb4
>39. axb4 Kg6 40. Ra1 Ng4+ 41. Ke2 Re8+ 42. Kd2 Nf6 43. Ra6 Rb8 44. Ra7 Rc8 45.
>c5 bxc5 46. bxc5 dxc5 47. Nf3 Kf7 48. Ne5+ Ke7 49. Nxd7 Nxd7 50. Bxf5 Rf8 51.
>g4 Kd6 52. Bxd7 Kxd7 53. Ke3 Re8+ 54. Kf3 Kd6 55. Ra6+ Kxd5 56. Rxh6 c4 57. Rh1
>c3 58. g5 c5 59. Rd1+ Kc4 60. g6 c2 61. Rc1 Kd3 62. f5 Rg8 63. Kf4 Kd2 64.
>Rxc2+ Kxc2 65. Kg5 c4 66. f6 c3 67. f7 1/2-1/2
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1959.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Pilnik"]
>[Black "Fischer"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "B92"]
>[PlyCount "80"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. O-O
>O-O 9. Be3 Be6 10. f3 Qc7 11. Qe1 Nbd7 12. Rd1 b5 13. Rd2 Nb6 14. Qf2 Rab8 15.
>Bxb6 Rxb6 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. exd5 Bd7 18. f4 Bf6 19. c3 Rbb8 20. fxe5 Bxe5 21.
>Nd4 g6 22. a3 a5 23. Kh1 b4 24. cxb4 axb4 25. Rc2 Qb6 26. Nc6 bxa3 27. Qxb6
>Rxb6 28. bxa3 Ra8 29. Nxe5 dxe5 30. Rc3 Rb2 31. Rc7 Bf5 32. g4 Be4+ 33. Bf3 Bd3
>34. d6 Rd8 35. Re1 Rxd6 36. Rxe5 Rf6 37. Re3 {#Testposition 3} 37... Rxf3 $1
>38. Rxf3 Be4 39. Rcxf7 Rf2 40. Rf8+ Kg7 0-1
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1959.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Keres"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C99"]
>[PlyCount "161"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
>d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 cxd4 13. cxd4 Bb7 14. Nf1 Rac8 15.
>Bd3 Nc6 16. Ne3 Rfe8 17. Nf5 Bf8 18. Bg5 Nd7 19. Rc1 Qb8 20. Bb1 Nxd4 21. N3xd4
>Rxc1 22. Bxc1 exd4 23. Nh6+ gxh6 24. Qg4+ Kh8 25. Qxd7 Bd5 26. Qf5 Re5 27. Qf3
>f5 28. Bf4 Re8 29. Qh5 Bxe4 30. f3 Bc6 31. Rc1 Bd7 32. Bxh6 Re6 33. Bxf8 Qxf8
>34. Qh4 Qf6 35. Qxf6+ Rxf6 36. Kf2 Kg7 37. Rc7 Rf7 38. Ke2 f4 39. Ra7 Kf6 40.
>Rxa6 Re7+ 41. Kf2 Be6 42. Rxd6 Ke5 43. Rc6 Bd5 44. Rh6 Rc7 45. Rh5+ Kd6 46.
>Rh6+ Ke5 47. Rh5+ Kd6 48. Rf5 Rc1 49. Bd3 Rd1 50. Ke2 Rg1 51. Kf2 Rd1 52. Ke2
>Rg1 53. Rg5 Bxa2 54. Bxb5 Rb1 55. Kd3 h6 56. Rh5 Rxb2 57. Kxd4 Rxg2 58. Rxh6+
>Ke7 59. Ke4 Rg5 60. Ba6 Bf7 61. Bc8 Rg6 62. Rh7 Kf8 63. Bg4 Rg7 64. Rh6 Rg6 65.
>Rxg6 Bxg6+ 66. Kxf4 Kg7 67. Kg5 Bd3 68. f4 Be4 69. h4 (69. f5 {#Testposition 4}
>69... Bxf5 $1 $11) 69... Bd3 70. h5 Be4 71. h6+ Kh8 72. Bf5 Bd5 73. Bg6 Be6 74.
>Kf6 Bc4 75. Kg5 Be6 76. Bh5 Kh7 77. Bg4 Bc4 78. f5 Bf7 79. Bh5 Bc4 80. Bg6+ Kg8
>81. f6 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1959.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Unzicker"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "C97"]
>[PlyCount "129"]
>
>1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
>O-O 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. Nbd2 Bd7 13. Nf1 Rfe8 14. Ne3 g6 15.
>dxe5 dxe5 16. Nh2 Rad8 17. Qf3 Be6 18. Nhg4 Nxg4 19. hxg4 Qc6 20. g5 Nc4 21.
>Ng4 Bxg4 22. Qxg4 f6 23. gxf6 Bxf6 24. a4 Nb6 25. axb5 axb5 26. Be3 Ra8 27.
>Red1 Kh8 28. b3 Bg7 29. Qh4 Bf6 30. Bg5 Bxg5 31. Qxg5 Rxa1 32. Rxa1 Nd7 33. Bd1
>Nf6 (33... b4 34. c4 {#Testposition 5} 34... Qxe4 $2 35. Bf3 Qf4 36. Qxf4 exf4
>37. Bc6 Re7 38. Ra8+ Kg7 39. Ra7) 34. Ra7 Qd6 35. Be2 Re7 36. Rxe7 Qxe7 37.
>Bxb5 Kg7 38. Be2 Qc7 39. Qe3 Qa5 40. g3 Qa3 41. Kg2 Qa5 42. Qd3 Qb6 43. Qc4 Qc6
>44. Bd3 Qb6 45. b4 cxb4 46. cxb4 Ng4 47. Qc5 Qxc5 48. bxc5 Kf7 49. f4 Ke7 50.
>Kf3 Nf6 51. Bb5 Ke6 52. Bc4+ Ke7 53. c6 Ne8 54. fxe5 h6 55. Ke3 Nc7 56. Kd4 h5
>57. Ke3 g5 58. Be2 h4 59. gxh4 gxh4 60. Bc4 Ne8 61. Kf4 Kd8 62. Kg4 Kc7 63. Bf7
>Ng7 64. Kxh4 Kxc6 65. Kg5 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1959.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Gligoric"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B57"]
>[PlyCount "63"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 Bd7 7. Bb3 g6 8. f3
>Na5 9. Bg5 Bg7 10. Qd2 h6 11. Be3 Rc8 12. O-O-O Nc4 13. Qe2 Nxe3 14. Qxe3 O-O
>15. g4 Qa5 16. h4 e6 17. Nde2 Rc6 18. g5 hxg5 19. hxg5 Nh5 20. f4 Rfc8 21. Kb1
>Qb6 22. Qf3 Rc5 23. Qd3 Bxc3 24. Nxc3 Nxf4 25. Qf3 Nh5 {#Testposition 6} 26.
>Rxh5 $1 gxh5 27. Qxh5 Be8 28. Qh6 Rxc3 29. bxc3 Rxc3 30. g6 fxg6 31. Rh1 Qd4
>32. Qh7+ 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1961.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Tal"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B47"]
>[PlyCount "93"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 Nf6 7. Ndb5 Qb8 8.
>Bf4 Ne5 9. Be2 Bc5 10. Bxe5 Qxe5 11. f4 Qb8 12. e5 a6 13. exf6 axb5 14. fxg7
>Rg8 15. Ne4 Be7 16. Qd4 Ra5 17. Nf6+ Bxf6 18. Qxf6 Qc7 19. O-O-O Rxa2 20. Kb1
>Ra6 {#Testposition 7} 21. Bxb5 (21. Bh5 $1 d6 22. Rhe1 Qe7 23. Qh6 Kd7 24. Qxh7
>) 21... Rb6 22. Bd3 e5 23. fxe5 Rxf6 24. exf6 Qc5 25. Bxh7 Qg5 26. Bxg8 Qxf6
>27. Rhf1 Qxg7 28. Bxf7+ Kd8 29. Be6 Qh6 30. Bxd7 Bxd7 31. Rf7 Qxh2 32. Rdxd7+
>Ke8 33. Rde7+ Kd8 34. Rd7+ Kc8 35. Rc7+ Kd8 36. Rfd7+ Ke8 37. Rd1 b5 38. Rb7
>Qh5 39. g4 Qh3 40. g5 Qf3 41. Re1+ Kf8 42. Rxb5 Kg7 43. Rb6 Qg3 44. Rd1 Qc7 45.
>Rdd6 Qc8 46. b3 Kh7 47. Ra6 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1962.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Najdorf"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B90"]
>[PlyCount "47"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 b5 7. Nd5 Bb7 8.
>Nxf6+ gxf6 9. c4 bxc4 10. Bxc4 Bxe4 11. O-O d5 12. Re1 e5 13. Qa4+ Nd7 14. Rxe4
>dxe4 15. Nf5 Bc5 16. Ng7+ Ke7 17. Nf5+ Ke8 18. Be3 Bxe3 19. fxe3 Qb6 20. Rd1
>Ra7 {#Testposition 8} 21. Rd6 $1 Qd8 22. Qb3 Qc7 23. Bxf7+ Kd8 24. Be6 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1963.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Fischer"]
>[Black "Benkoe"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>[ECO "B09"]
>[PlyCount "41"]
>
>1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. f4 Nf6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bd3 Bg4 7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3
>Nc6 9. Be3 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. f5 gxf5 12. Qxf5 Nd4 13. Qf2 Ne8 14. O-O Nd6
>15. Qg3 Kh8 16. Qg4 c6 17. Qh5 Qe8 18. Bxd4 exd4 {#Testposition 9} 19. Rf6 $1
>Kg8 20. e5 h6 21. Ne2 1-0
>
>[Event "Fischer-Test"]
>[Site "?"]
>[Date "1967.??.??"]
>[Round "?"]
>[White "Larsen"]
>[Black "Fischer"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "E97"]
>[PlyCount "122"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. Be3
>Re8 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Qxd8 Nxd8 11. Nb5 Ne6 12. Ng5 Re7 13. Rfd1 b6 14. c5 Nxc5
>15. Rd8+ Bf8 16. Nxa7 Rxa7 17. Rxc8 Kg7 18. f3 Ne8 19. a3 Nd6 20. Rd8 h6 21.
>Nh3 Ne6 22. Rb8 Re8 23. Rxe8 Nxe8 24. Bb5 Nd6 25. Bf1 Nb7 26. Nf2 Bc5 27. Bxc5
>Nbxc5 28. Rd1 h5 29. Rd5 Kf6 30. h4 Ke7 {#Testposition 10} 31. Bc4 (31. Rxe5 $2
>c6) 31... c6 32. Rd2 Nd4 33. Kf1 f5 34. b4 b5 35. Bg8 fxe4 36. fxe4 Nd7 37. Rd3
>Ra6 38. Rc3 c5 39. g4 c4 40. gxh5 gxh5 41. Bd5 Nf6 42. Rg3 Nxd5 43. exd5 Rf6
>44. Kg2 Nf5 45. Rh3 Rg6+ 46. Kf3 Nd4+ 47. Ke3 Rg2 48. Rh1 Kd6 49. Ne4+ Kxd5 50.
>Nc3+ Ke6 51. Rc1 Rh2 52. a4 Rh3+ 53. Kf2 Nb3 54. Kg2 Nxc1 55. Kxh3 bxa4 56.
>Nxa4 Ne2 57. b5 c3 58. b6 c2 59. Nc5+ Kd5 60. Nb3 Kc6 61. Kg2 Kxb6 0-1
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