Chapter 9 of the Strategic Test Suite series is now available for download.

* Consists of carefully selected 100 test positions on "Advancement of a/b/c pawns"

* All of the questions in this test suite are selected by me and thoroughly verified by Dann Corbit through analysis with the help of 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.

Key Ideas:

1) [color=blue]Marching forward with either of the a/b/c pawns in an attempt to prevent opponent from advancing his pawns further. Helps in building the strong active defense. [/color]
2) [color=blue]Space advantage and possession in Queen Side. [/color]
3) [color=blue]Control of certain Squares on the queen side, and opening up of files via exchange of pawns. [/color]
4) Tests: [color=blue]Engine's Queen side aggressiveness, Space control, knowledge of Rook pawn tin opener. [/color]

Download it! [url=http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/8-advancement-of-f-g-h-pawn/STS%5B8.0%5DAdvancementoff-g-hpawnsII.epd]here[/url]:
http://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/8-advancement-of-f-g-h-pawn/STS%5B8.0%5DAdvancementoff-g-hpawnsII.epd

Thanks to those who reported bugs and tested out the v1.0 to v8.0

Test Suite release time: 19th of January, 2010
Swaminathan and Dann Corbit