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Subject: Re: Testposition - Kramnik

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:16:20 07/23/01

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On July 23, 2001 at 07:25:53, Sune Larsson wrote:

>On July 23, 2001 at 07:06:40, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>You should not post positions as "Testposition" when there are more then one way
>>to solve the position in a winning way, this is not the first example I have
>>found of the positions you have posted, but since I can prove to you with GM
>>anaylsis on this one, it was time.
>
>
> Thanks for your remark. I didn't know about Kramnik's comments to this game.
> Very interesting. Then again, there are many ways of "testing a position".
> If a GM shows a winning continuation in a game - and some computer program
> displays another line, as convincing or even more, I find that very interesting
> also, don't you? Mark well, in this specific case I never wrote anything about
> 24.Bxa6 being *the only* move in this position. For me it feels vital to test
> different program's evaluations after Kramnik's 24.Bxa6. The compensation
> for the piece is to be found in my comments but do the programs have this
> knowledge? If not, what could be done do add it?

Many classical test positions have multiple solutions.  Often, a test position
with only one known solution will have another discovered.  I think that this
may make the position even more interesting, especially if the new solution is
beautiful.



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