STS (v4.0) - "Square Vacancy"

By Swaminathan N Date 2009-07-14 07:13

Chapter 4 of the Strategic Test Suite: Square Vacancy is now available for download.

* Consists of carefully selected 100 questionairres on Square Vacancy

* All of the questions in this test suite are selected by me and thoroughly verified by Dann Corbitt. Each question has been analysed by top engines for hours. I initially selected about 200 problems and sent them to Dann, of which 100 has passed criteria. Dann then made the final selection.

* All the answers carry similar traits:

(1) [color=blue]Occupying the vacant square near the opponent's territory to create more pressure in surrounding areas.[/color] (2) [color=blue]Taking complete control of the vacant square in an attempt to gain more space over the board[/color] (3) [color=blue]Queen is the piece that creates more pressure if it's placed on a vacant square in opponent's camp. Therefore, a lot of these tests are usually a Queen move[/color]

Download it! here:
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/square-vacancy

Feel free to report the results from your engine/ favourite engine, suggestions are welcome.

Special Thanks to Pedro Castro, Allard Siemelink, Zach Wegner for the testing and correcting mistakes throughout the process. Thanks to those who reported bugs and tested out the V1.0, V2.0 and V3.0.

Test Suite Release time: 14th of July, 2009
Swaminathan and Dann Corbit.

By Swaminathan N Date 2009-07-14 07:14

For those who have tested one of the test suite - please feel free to send me a testimonial in response to this message

and I could put it in my site here:

http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/testimonials

By Thomas Müller Date 2009-07-14 12:03

i've never run before an position-test-suite under shredder gui.
Was this a right output from your STS4.0 ? What's the result of this?
Naum 4.0, 128MB, 1xCPU i will repeat it with 4xCPU



R7/2q3k1/p1r2p1n/2p1pPp1/P3P3/2PP4/7Q/5BK1 w - -

Engine: Naum 4 x64 (128 MB)
von Aleksandar Naumov

1      2      3        4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 

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0      |      0        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 7 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 

20     |      0        0 0 0 0 - 0 - 4 0 - 0 0 0 3 - 0 0 4 0 

40     |      0        0 0 0 - 0 5 1 0 - 0 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 

60     |      -        - 2 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 - - 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 

80     |      0        2 0 0 - 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 

  K/s: 605.741  
  TotTime: 7:42m    SolTime: 2:27m
  Ply: 0   Positions:100   Avg Nodes:       0   Branching = 0.00
  Ply: 1   Positions: 82   Avg Nodes:      95   Branching = 0.00
  Ply: 2   Positions: 71   Avg Nodes:     434   Branching = 4.57
  Ply: 3   Positions: 68   Avg Nodes:    1178   Branching = 2.71
  Ply: 4   Positions: 60   Avg Nodes:    3020   Branching = 2.56
  Ply: 5   Positions: 56   Avg Nodes:    5925   Branching = 1.96
  Ply: 6   Positions: 53   Avg Nodes:   10322   Branching = 1.74
  Ply: 7   Positions: 48   Avg Nodes:   24228   Branching = 2.35
  Ply: 8   Positions: 38   Avg Nodes:   45643   Branching = 1.88
  Ply: 9   Positions: 30   Avg Nodes:   84342   Branching = 1.85
  Ply:10   Positions: 28   Avg Nodes:  218563   Branching = 2.59
  Ply:11   Positions: 26   Avg Nodes:  480209   Branching = 2.20
  Ply:12   Positions: 19   Avg Nodes:  793463   Branching = 1.65
  Ply:13   Positions: 12   Avg Nodes: 1283076   Branching = 1.62
  Ply:14   Positions:  2   Avg Nodes: 1195712   Branching = 0.93

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TM

By Swaminathan N Date 2009-07-14 12:36 Edited 2009-07-14 12:41

Hi, Does this mean that Naum 4 solved about 86 out of 100? I think that's normal result for Naum... I'm assuming time used per position is less.

Fruit and Glaurung solve about 77-79 in this suite in 10 seconds per position.

By Thomas Müller Date 2009-07-14 18:26

maybe 86?

can it be that "-" are not solved in the table?
"0" are solved in 0 sec.
">0" are solved in x sec?

then we have 15 "-", so 85 solved

Naum4 with 4CPU have 13 "-", so 87 solved?

I don't know

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By Thomas Müller Date 2009-07-14 12:34

here are the result of Naum 4.0 4xCPU


R7/2q3k1/p1r2p1n/2p1pPp1/P3P3/2PP4/7Q/5BK1 w - -

Engine: Naum 4 x64 (128 MB)
von Aleksandar Naumov

1      2      3        4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0      |      0        0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 

20     |      0        0 2 0 0 - 0 - 1 0 0 0 2 0 - 2 0 0 - 0 

40     |      0        0 0 0 - 0 4 0 0 11 0 - 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 

60     |      1        - 0 0 0 0 6 0 - - 0 0 1 - 1 0 0 0 1 0 

80     |      0        3 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 3 - 0 0 

  K/s: 1.904.024  
  TotTime: 7:36m    SolTime: 2:07m
  Ply: 0   Positions:100   Avg Nodes:       0   Branching = 0.00
  Ply: 1   Positions: 82   Avg Nodes:      95   Branching = 0.00
  Ply: 2   Positions: 71   Avg Nodes:     434   Branching = 4.57
  Ply: 3   Positions: 68   Avg Nodes:    1178   Branching = 2.71
  Ply: 4   Positions: 60   Avg Nodes:    3020   Branching = 2.56
  Ply: 5   Positions: 55   Avg Nodes:    6414   Branching = 2.12
  Ply: 6   Positions: 51   Avg Nodes:   11883   Branching = 1.85
  Ply: 7   Positions: 50   Avg Nodes:   32355   Branching = 2.72
  Ply: 8   Positions: 43   Avg Nodes:   62998   Branching = 1.95
  Ply: 9   Positions: 34   Avg Nodes:  130771   Branching = 2.08
  Ply:10   Positions: 23   Avg Nodes:  264600   Branching = 2.02
  Ply:11   Positions: 28   Avg Nodes:  892034   Branching = 3.37
  Ply:12   Positions: 20   Avg Nodes: 1279641   Branching = 1.43
  Ply:13   Positions: 14   Avg Nodes: 1904203   Branching = 1.49
  Ply:14   Positions: 10   Avg Nodes: 3479332   Branching = 1.83
  Ply:15   Positions:  4   Avg Nodes: 4910637   Branching = 1.41

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By Swaminathan N Date 2009-07-14 12:39

Thanks for the results. May I ask what the time used is for per position?