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Subject: Re: Why is this position so difficult? Correction

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 22:21:00 05/20/02

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On May 21, 2002 at 01:17:59, Ricardo Gibert wrote:

>On May 21, 2002 at 01:00:36, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>[D]1q1r3k/3P1pp1/ppBR1n1p/4Q2P/P4P2/8/5PK1/8 w - -
>>
>>None of my engines finds Rxf6 in reasonable time e.g. under 30 minutes! What's
>>so
>>special there, is it null-move problem may be? I guess Rebel can find it am I
>>right?
>>
>>Jouni
>
>This is not a null-move problem. After 1.Rxf6 Qxe5 2.fxe5 gxf6 3.exf6 the White
>King is boxed out of play. Computer chess programs do not detect this.

Oops! I mean *Black* king of course.



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