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Subject: Re: Nice SEE test position?

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 15:22:34 01/06/02

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On January 06, 2002 at 15:07:19, Severi Salminen wrote:

>>>Can you guys post some positions that would make a nice test for a SEE? A lot of
>>>captures basically, I guess...
>>>
>>>/David
>>
>>leonid posts often positions when a lot of captures are possible
>>Today he posted the following post and maybe it may be good to test your SEE.
>>
>>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?205710
>
>I think the best position to test SEE, is a kind of where _you_ also can easily
>follow the thinking process and that you can first manually count the resulting
>score. Compose a position where there are knights, bishops, rooks, queens and a
>king attacking a single piece or a pawn and be sure to include a few batteries.
>Check out that your SEE resolves these batteries and screws properly and that
>the precense of king affects the final score (king should be the last one to
>capture and no-one can't capture a king) I think leonid's positions are
>unnecessarily complex for this...
>
>Severi

I agree completely. These are exactly my thoughts after trying with leonids
positions. Can someone come up with a position such as the one you're
describing?

/David



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