Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 00:43:44 12/08/04
The following positions can all be solved in a matter of SECONDS by ANY PC
program but gives most dedicated units a real challenge. My Fidelity Designer
2100 Display (6Mhz) only managed to solve 2 of the ten problems.
Fidelity Designer 2100 (6Mhz) 1. X 2. X 3. X 4. X 5. 3 min 40 sec 6. 2
min 28 sec 7. X 8. X 9. X 10. X
DEDICATED TEST SUITE (10 minutes per move)
[Event "DCS 1"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1927.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Capablanca"]
[Black "Spielmann"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "D38"]
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Nd7 4. Nc3 Ngf6 5. Bg5 Bb4 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Qa4 Bxc3+
8. bxc3 O-O 9. e3 c5 10. Bd3 c4 11. Bc2 Qe7 12. O-O a6 13. Rfe1 Qe6 14. Nd2 b5
15. Qa5 Ne4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. a4 Qd5 {18. axb5!) This sacrifice is not
especially deep, but demonstrates in clear-cut fashion how the possibility of
creating a passed pawn must be borne in mind in the most innocent-looking
positions.} *
[Event "DCS 2"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "E73"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Qd2 c6 8. Nf3
e5 9. O-O exd4 10. Nxd4 Nc5 11. f3 {11...Nfxe4!!) Stunning!} *
[Event "DCS 3"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "C40"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5+ Ke7 5. Qxe5+ Kf7 6. Bc4+ d5 7. Bxd5+
Kg6 {8.h4!) The key move.} *
[Event "DCS 4"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "C25"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Na5 {4.Bxf7+!)} *
[Event "DCS 5"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B05"]
1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 dxe5 7. Nxe5 Bxe2 8.
Qxe2 Qxd4 9. O-O N8d7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. Nc3 c6 12. Rd1 Qe5 13. Qf3 e6 14. Bf4
Qf5 15. Nb5 Rc8 16. Nc7+ Kd8 {17.g4!) The point is to deny the black king a
safe route to the kingside.} *
[Event "DCS 6"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B27"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. dxc5 Qa5+ 5. c3 Qxc5 6. Be3 Qc7 7. Qa4 Nf6 8.
Na3 Nc6 9. Nb5 Qb8 {10.Bb6!!) There is no way for Black to avoid serious
material losses.} *
[Event "DCS 7"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B42"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Qc7 7. Qe2 Bd6 8.
Kh1 Nc6 9. Nxc6 dxc6 10. f4 Nd7 11. e5 Be7 12. Be3 b5 13. Nd2 Bb7 14. c4 Nc5
15. Bxc5 Bxc5 16. Ne4 Qb6 {17.F5!)} *
[Event "DCS 8"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "E67"]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 Nbd7 5. g3 g6 6. Bg2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. b3
c6 9. Bb2 Re8 10. e4 exd4 11. Nxd4 Qb6 12. Qd2 Nc5 13. Rfe1 a5 14. Rab1 a4 15.
Ba1 axb3 16. axb3 Ng4 17. h3 {17...Rxa1!) } *
[Event "DCS 9"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2004.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "C11"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Qb6 7. Na4 Qa5+ 8. c3
c4 9. b4 cxb3 10. axb3 Qc7 11. c4 Bb4+ 12. Kf2 Nb6 13. Bd3 Bd7 14. Nxb6 Qxb6
15. Bd2 Nc6 16. Ke3 O-O 17. c5 Qc7 18. Bxb4 Nxb4 {19.Bxh7+)} *
[Event "DCS 10"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1933.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Mikenas, Vladas I"]
[Black "Flohr, Salomon M"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be2 dxc4 8.
d5 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Ne5 10. O-O Qd7 11. Qe2 Nxf3+ 12. Qxf3 O-O-O 13. b3 e6 14.
bxc4 exd5 15. Bf4 d4 16. Nb5 Bc5 17. Rab1 Qc6 18. Qh3+ Qd7 {19.Nxa7)} 1-0
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