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Subject: Re: The Pawn Game revisited...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:37:06 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 06:22:22, Sune Fischer wrote:

>On September 21, 2003 at 06:04:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On September 21, 2003 at 04:59:46, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>
>>>On September 21, 2003 at 01:00:37, Paul Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>I tried a different, even faster position, looks like it's a big zugzwang!
>>>
>>>[D]8/8/pppppppp/8/8/PPPPPPPP/8/8 w - -
>
>>I can confirm that it is wrong without programs
>>The pv says
>>1.a4 h5 2.h4 a5 3.c4 e5 4.e4 d5
>>
>>White is clearly winning by exd5 so without expressing opinion if white is
>>losing this line is not the reason that white is losing.
>
>It seems to be a bad idea to cull losing captures in qsearch.

I do not see what that pv has to do with pruning losing captures.
How do you get a losing capture with only pawns on the board?

Uri



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