Author: David Dahlem
Date: 06:13:12 10/31/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 04:44:01, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On October 30, 2005 at 09:37:11, David Dahlem wrote: > >>The GradualTest utility by Odd Gunnar Malin has a test suite with scored moves >>called tony.epd, the positional suite of Tony Hedlund. Are there any other >>suites with scored moves such as this? This is a sample position from tony.epd >>... >> >>1r2r1k1/1pqbbppp/p2p1n2/4p3/P3PP2/2N1BB2/1PP2QPP/R4R1K b - - bm Rbc8 exf4 Bc6 >>Rec8 b6 b5 Be6 h6; c0 "Karpov-Kasparov, Moscow 1985"; c1 "10 9 7 6 6 5 4 3"; id >>"T01"; >> >>Regards >>Dave > > >Hi. > >There exists some of these puzzles in book-form, Bent Larsen (1 book), Danel >King (2 books), and also on ImproveYourChess.com (Daniel King) and in >Chessmaster (Bruce Pandolfini). > >But unfortunately these are all copyrighted. > >Another minor problem with these are that they are scored by only one GM so >there could be some error or dispute of some moves. These are probably easy to >find and exclude from the set. > >The nice thing about Tony's set is that it is evaluated by several strong >players in an open dialog so it is probably very good. > >Maybe it could be possible to collect some positions from well annotated games >(by several players) and try to score moves. >Usually in a GM game most of the moves aren't depended on style, but would be >played be most GM's. Take away style, tactics and openingmoves from a game you >should still have 60-70% of the moves left as candidate for a positional test. > >Odd Gunnar Thanks Odd Gunnar I'll check out your suggestions. I also found the "Solitaire Chess" column by Bruce Pandolfini in some old Chess Life magazines. This column scores moves from selected GM games. Regards Dave
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