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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 .

Themes and EPDs

#	Theme	EDP	CPW Page
1	Undermining	File:STS1.epd	Undermining
2	Open Files and Diagonals	File:STS2.epd	Rook on Open File
3	Knight Outposts	File:STS3.epd	Outposts
4	Square Vacancy	File:STS4.epd	Square Control
5	Bishop vs Knight	File:STS5.epd	Bishop versus Knight
6	Re-Capturing	File:STS6.epd	Captures
7	Offer of Simplification	File:STS7.epd	Material
8	Advancement of f/g/h pawns	File:STS8.epd	Pawn Storm
9	Advancement of a/b/c Pawns	File:STS9.epd	Pawn Storm
10	Simplification	File:STS10.epd
11	Activity of the King	File:STS11.epd	King Safety vs King Centralization
12	Center Control	File:STS12.epd	Center Control
13	Pawn Play in the Center	File:STS13.epd	Pawn Center
14	Queens and Rooks to the 7th Rank	File:STS14.epd	Rook on Seventh
15	Avoid Pointless Exchange	File: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
• STS Chess Test by Kurt Utzinger, CCC, May 30, 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
• LcZero and STS by Ed Schröder, CCC, June 14, 2018 » Leela Chess Zero

External Links

• Strategic Test Suite
• Practical Engine Tuning by Ed Schröder, June 2018 » Automated Tuning using STS
• GitHub - fsmosca/STS-Rating: A method to rate chess engines using STS test suite by Ferdinand Mosca

References

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