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Subject: Re: The Pawn Game revisited...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:41:31 09/21/03

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On September 21, 2003 at 06:37:06, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

You of course can get it if the opponent get unstoppable passed pawn because of
the capture but it is not the case here.

Uri



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