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Is there any website where it's possible to solve positional exercises ?
I know books have them, I'm looking specifically for a website where it's possible to at least download (if solving them there isn't possible) in FEN / PGN format.

Thanks in advance,
Strategicness

Is there any website where it's possible to solve positional exercises ? I know books have them, I'm looking specifically for a website where it's possible to at least download (if solving them there isn't possible) in FEN / PGN format. Thanks in advance, Strategicness

MasterOvFan edited

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All of these should help you:@Strategicness said in #1:

Is there any website where it's possible to solve positional exercises ?
I know books have them, I'm looking specifically for a website where it's possible to at least download (if solving them there isn't possible) in FEN / PGN format.

Thanks in advance,
Strategicness
All of these should help U: https://lichess.org/study, https://lichess.org/training, https://lichess.org/learn#/, https://lichess.org/practice, https://lichess.org/training/coordinate, https://lichess.org/storm

All of these should help you:@Strategicness said in #1: > Is there any website where it's possible to solve positional exercises ? > I know books have them, I'm looking specifically for a website where it's possible to at least download (if solving them there isn't possible) in FEN / PGN format. > > Thanks in advance, > Strategicness All of these should help U: https://lichess.org/study, https://lichess.org/training, https://lichess.org/learn#/, https://lichess.org/practice, https://lichess.org/training/coordinate, https://lichess.org/storm

Strategicness

#3

@MasterOvFan Thanks for taking your time but that's not what I'm looking for, I'm looking for positional / strategic puzzles.

MasterOvFan

#4

@Strategicness said in #3:

@MasterOvFan Thanks for taking your time but that's not what I'm looking for, I'm looking for positional / strategic puzzles.
https://lichess.org/study/zNJc4rPB
(This is not my study)

@Strategicness said in #3: > @MasterOvFan Thanks for taking your time but that's not what I'm looking for, I'm looking for positional / strategic puzzles. https://lichess.org/study/zNJc4rPB (This is not my study)

aescht

#5

@MasterOvFan said in #4:

lichess.org/study/zNJc4rPB (This is not my study)

The first move to find is already extremely tactical as one has to calculate the 1. Qc2 g3 line with a depth of 9 and grave imbalances.

Nevertheless thanks for sharing @MasterOvFan - maybe it gets better.

@MasterOvFan said in #4: > lichess.org/study/zNJc4rPB (This is not my study) The first move to find is already extremely tactical as one has to calculate the 1. Qc2 g3 line with a depth of 9 and grave imbalances. Nevertheless thanks for sharing @MasterOvFan - maybe it gets better.

aescht

#6

I meant 1. Qc2 g6

(I cannot edit my post above for some reason)

I meant 1. Qc2 g6 (I cannot edit my post above for some reason)

jomega

#7

#1

You might want to look at the STS suite. STS = Strategic Test Suite
This is a suite of 1500 positions that originated with work done in 2009 by Dann Corbit and Swaminathan, and 2 years ago was curated again by fsmosca. fsmosca wrote a Python program to "rate" engines on the suite.
That curated file is here
https://github.com/fsmosca/STS-Rating/blob/master/STS1-STS15_LAN_v3.epd

The 'about' for the STS:
https://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/about-1

#1 You might want to look at the STS suite. STS = Strategic Test Suite This is a suite of 1500 positions that originated with work done in 2009 by Dann Corbit and Swaminathan, and 2 years ago was curated again by fsmosca. fsmosca wrote a Python program to "rate" engines on the suite. That curated file is here https://github.com/fsmosca/STS-Rating/blob/master/STS1-STS15_LAN_v3.epd The 'about' for the STS: https://sites.google.com/site/strategictestsuite/about-1

Strategicness

#8

@jomega Thank you, this looks interesting and might just do the work.

dboing

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Positional Chess Puzzles.
In that study, are there cases where one could learn to disambiguate the effect of combined positional features. not just tell which one is more important by making it the only solution, neglecting to consider other positional feature based arguments, but acknowledging that the puzzle player is not yet a master and would not just like to mimic the moves of an expert and mimic the reason invoked then as the only reason that could be considered. I mean are there chapters that might be considering other existing features on the same position, not the one mentioned in the solution that gives success (if binary), but somehow give some ways to prioritize among features as a function of position information.

I don't know how, because it feels to me to be more of a discussion or debate process, but maybe the crafting of the position or a gradually changing the winning feature in a series of crafted positions, could reach the same result by using position exaggerations or design as a way to stimulate internal debate in the learner.... I have other suggestions in my drafts of naive ideas.

i did not look at more that 1 of the chapters, and I am using the study as pretext to express what I would be wanting out of positional puzzles, maybe not what the op would want I don't know. So my question is more general, although if that is approached in some chapter I would be glad to go look.

NB: or for some intermediate levels or more advanced levels of learners, the puzzles could be inverted by making a feature combination and some degree of dominance of one over the other a crafting exercise. Find a position that illustrate one isolated feature, then try to maintain that small bulk amount, but change minimally or sufficiently to bring another possibly "orthogonal" feature (add subtract, mutate, not necessarily legal predecessor or successor, but any legal neighbor...). This could be also a crafting discussion, where people speak with FENs.... orthogonal could be statistically independent over some well spread database of positions...

License to err, I took.

Positional Chess Puzzles. In that study, are there cases where one could learn to disambiguate the effect of combined positional features. not just tell which one is more important by making it the only solution, neglecting to consider other positional feature based arguments, but acknowledging that the puzzle player is not yet a master and would not just like to mimic the moves of an expert and mimic the reason invoked then as the only reason that could be considered. I mean are there chapters that might be considering other existing features on the same position, not the one mentioned in the solution that gives success (if binary), but somehow give some ways to prioritize among features as a function of position information. I don't know how, because it feels to me to be more of a discussion or debate process, but maybe the crafting of the position or a gradually changing the winning feature in a series of crafted positions, could reach the same result by using position exaggerations or design as a way to stimulate internal debate in the learner.... I have other suggestions in my drafts of naive ideas. i did not look at more that 1 of the chapters, and I am using the study as pretext to express what I would be wanting out of positional puzzles, maybe not what the op would want I don't know. So my question is more general, although if that is approached in some chapter I would be glad to go look. NB: or for some intermediate levels or more advanced levels of learners, the puzzles could be inverted by making a feature combination and some degree of dominance of one over the other a crafting exercise. Find a position that illustrate one isolated feature, then try to maintain that small bulk amount, but change minimally or sufficiently to bring another possibly "orthogonal" feature (add subtract, mutate, not necessarily legal predecessor or successor, but any legal neighbor...). This could be also a crafting discussion, where people speak with FENs.... orthogonal could be statistically independent over some well spread database of positions... License to err, I took.