Hi All,

STS 15 is now available for download.

Consists of carefully selected 100 test positions on "Avoid pointless exchange"

The test suite deals with the decision to exchange or not, with all of the positions involving queen. These are the cases when the exchange is best avoided because the ...

I tried loading pgn files from SCID folder. It takes a long time to load commented games Pgn consisting of 20k games. It does load 3.5k tactical puzzles pgn, though. When I select one of the puzzles, it shows the answer as the start position itself, also there was no arrow to go to the next puzzle ...

Thanks, Aart. Will update it!

Great! Please let me know what you think.

The GUI and the features implemented so far is awesome!

Will download a lot of other engines, and see the real game between engines. :)

I tried loading pgn files from SCID folder. It takes a long time to load commented ...

I just released version 2.9 of Chess for Android, available from the Android market or as direct download . New features include:


built-in engine improvements
various UCI improvements

engine tournament feature (with resume option)
option settings saved per engine
more flexible uninstall ...

STS 14 is now available.

Consists of carefully selected 100 test positions on "Queens and Rooks to the 7th"

Themes: Open file, Threat, Attack on pawns, Middle game, Endgame, King side attack, Flank/Central Pressure.

Download:

https://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/queens-and-rooks ...

The new Scid on the go has an improved study mode that no longer creates new variations when an incorrect move is entered. I loaded a bunch of mating problems into it last night and it's working great. Thanks, Gerhard!

http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/market/apps/app/org.scid.android/Scid-on ...

Thanks, Aart! Good effort.

Screen layout is much better.
Pgn works too. I wish there was more feature (Study-mode on/off as in SCID, the arrow button to go to the next game in the Pgn database etc)

No problem, Mathias.

Looking forward to the new one. I'll re-test the engines that were tested with ChessGUI. (Bobcat and Critter)

Best,
Swami

IWB wrote:You can follow the tourney here:

http://www.inwoba.de

Have fun
Ingo

So far the results as reported by Richard Vida prior to the release appears consistent with this tournament result. IE Slightly better than Stockfish but somewhat weaker than Houdini.

Around 20-30 elo gain.

1300 positions
10 seconds per position
Chess GUI, Q6600 2.4 GHZ 32 bits.

https://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/test-results---sts-1---12-2/test-results---sts-1---12/Critter1.0.jpg

Regards,
Swami

Comparison with Critter 0.9


Results of STS 1-13 for
Critter 0.90 :
Single CPU ...