Author: Mike S.
Date: 13:58:46 09/22/00
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On September 22, 2000 at 13:40:11, Aaron Tay wrote: >(...) As for the positional tests, I'm not even sure if >Kasparov would agree with all the answers I share your doubts (which doesn't mean much as I'm not a strong player), but in the LCT II set, I think the positional tests no. pos-5 and pos-6 are quite fine. In pos-5 (Estrin-Pytel 1973), black sacs his pawn structure at the queenside (resulting in an isolated doubled pawn if white accepts), to be able to double the rooks in the c-file: [D]2r2rk1/1p1bq3/p3p2p/3pPpp1/1P1Q4/P7/2P2PPP/2R1RBK1 b - - bm Bb5 In pos-6 (Nimzovitch-Capablanca 1927), black sacs a pawn to double his rooks on the 2nd rank. This one can be solved "purely tactically" too I think, but the idea - from a human viewpoint - is positional at first: [D]3r1bk1/p4ppp/Qp2p3/8/1P1B4/Pq2P1P1/2r2P1P/R3R1K1 b - - bm e5 So, some positional tests are quite convincing I think, although the majority of them is not. Regards, M.Scheidl
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