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Subject: Re: Some new test positions

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 06:28:27 06/03/02

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On June 03, 2002 at 09:07:13, Rafael Andrist wrote:

>On June 03, 2002 at 07:28:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>>>[D] r2qkb1r/pB1n1ppp/4p3/3p4/8/1P2Pb2/P1QP1PPP/RNB2RK1 b kq -
>
>>latest position is solved only for tactical reasons and it takes almost 30
>>minutes to fail highand almost 2 hours to solve the fail high.
>
>It's a nice Nullmove test position. Try (after 1... Qg5 2.g3 Qg4 3.Bxa8?! Qh3)
>B3kb1r/p2n1ppp/4p3/3p4/8/1P2PbPq/P1QP1P1P/RNB2RK1 w k - 1 4
>
>Without Nullmove, Wilhelm now easily sees the mate, but it has problems to see
>the mate threat g2 with Nullmove.
>
>regards
>Rafael B. Andrist

I guess that without null move movei could see Qg5
at depth 10 and not at depth 12 but
it still needs some minutes to find Qg5
even in that case because of worse branching factor.

Uri



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