I totally agree with you.

Today’s programs are very good at defending complex/difficult positions.
I not saying or implying that gambits are good.
It was just my attempt to provide an example of a defensive situation.

What I was really after:
An example or two of a defensive position?
What ...

I was reading something about alternative search algorithms in chess, where the author commented on the programs performance saying something like....
“The programs poor abilities in defensive positions.”
“The programs poor abilities to find good defensive moves.”

It got me thinking....
What ...

rtr list a lot of good resources for improving, but...

If you are rated 1200-1300
you don't need to pay a coach to tell you what your weaknesses are, because I will tell it to you for free :)
At 1300 your greates weaknes is tactics, your games contain a lot of tactical mistakes, both small and ...

Thanks Again User923005 you are great.
I never thought of searching for 'c# chess engine' only on stuff like 'chess move generator' dooh.....
Any way I have ended up using the 'chess game starter kit' from this site http://www.chessbin.com/archive.aspx
It seems to work great for my purpose.
Thanks

In my C# program I like to be able to do something like this:

string someFen = “r1b1k2r/pp1p1ppp/2n1p3/qN2P3/5P2/2bBB3/P1P2KPP/R2Q3R b kq”
list<string> moves = MoveGenerator.GetLegalMoves(“someFen”)

Without having to write MoveGenerator.GetLegalMoves myself.

Why
Because my interest is in ...

Thank you User923005
These are exactly the kind of positions I was looking for,
several of them are plenty tough enough for my purpose
Thanks

Hi all.
I'm new to open-chess, and to chess-programming (but not to programming or chess).

I want to experiment with some more alternative/selective searching algorithms, and for that I need some very tough (but not impossible to solve) positions.

The ideal kind of position would be a position ...