Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:43:28 01/29/02
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On January 29, 2002 at 16:36:23, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Roy, > >>>Wow, Fritz 7b is blind to this one. It does not see in advance that 37...Nxe5 >>>is good for Black (it thinks Black is down more than 3 pawns). Must be >>>null-move / zugzwang, right? >> >> >>To be more specific, in the following position Black can play ...Re6 and be in >>very good shape (certainly not behind). However, Fritz 7b evaluates this >>position as being better for White by about 5 pawns: >> >>[d] 8/8/1p1r1k2/p1pRN1p1/P3K1P1/1P6/8/8 b - - 0 2 > >strange... Quark fully disagrees and thinks that black is little bit better... Quark is right. Fritz is wrong. I guess this is a very good example of a blindness caused by using null move. My question is, do all zugzwang positions confound null move, or only some?
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