Pgn/Epd Test Suite Help

[swami]

I've collected many positional chess games, I wanted to categorise certain positions into a distinct group such as for example: "Outpost.Pgn", "Isolated pawn.Pgn" etc and collect all the positions in that Pgn file.

I wanted to enter the answer into the Pgn position just like how it was done in wsac.pgn, Wac.Pgn. When you open the file in the database, you could see the answer first, you could let the tools in GUI test the engine automatically and get back to you with results.

I don't know how to do that in Arena, or chessbase. Are there special tools to do this? any idea?

Thanks.

[pedrox]

I've collected many positional chess games, I wanted to categorise certain positions into a distinct group such as for example: "Outpost.Pgn", "Isolated pawn.Pgn" etc and collect all the positions in that Pgn file.

I wanted to enter the answer into the Pgn position just like how it was done in wsac.pgn, Wac.Pgn. When you open the file in the database, you could see the answer first, you could let the tools in GUI test the engine automatically and get back to you with results.

I don't know how to do that in Arena, or chessbase. Are there special tools to do this? any idea?

Thanks.

Hi Swami, I await with interest your test of positions.

I suggest that you use the EPD format, better than the PGN format, I think that is more suitable for analysis of positions.

EPD format, each line consists of a position in fen, if you are using Arena, once you get the position on the screen you can use the menu "Position / Copy FEN to clipbloard", then open the notebook and paste the position , after the line, you leave a space, and put the word bm (best move) or am (avoid move) followed by the move, return and for the following position. When the file is save with the name outpost.txt for example, then you can change it to outpost.epd.

Pedro

[swami]

I've collected many positional chess games, I wanted to categorise certain positions into a distinct group such as for example: "Outpost.Pgn", "Isolated pawn.Pgn" etc and collect all the positions in that Pgn file.

I wanted to enter the answer into the Pgn position just like how it was done in wsac.pgn, Wac.Pgn. When you open the file in the database, you could see the answer first, you could let the tools in GUI test the engine automatically and get back to you with results.

I don't know how to do that in Arena, or chessbase. Are there special tools to do this? any idea?

Thanks.

Hi Swami, I await with interest your test of positions.

I suggest that you use the EPD format, better than the PGN format, I think that is more suitable for analysis of positions.

EPD format, each line consists of a position in fen, if you are using Arena, once you get the position on the screen you can use the menu "Position / Copy FEN to clipbloard", then open the notebook and paste the position , after the line, you leave a space, and put the word bm (best move) or am (avoid move) followed by the move, return and for the following position. When the file is save with the name outpost.txt for example, then you can change it to outpost.epd.

Pedro

Thanks a lot, Pedro, for helping me out!

I guess I will release the test suites one by one in coming week.

Regards.