Stockfish 10 Refuted Jan TImman’s Chess Puzzle

December 4, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Stockfish 10 Refuted Jan TImman’s Chess Puzzle
In the era of powerful chess engines there is no place for errors. Engines not only are finding brilliant continuations in classical games which have been a dark forest for decades but also are finding great counterplays in the puzzles, which the authors have missed. In this video you can see how Stockfish 10 is finding a brilliant defensive resource for black after which black is nearly equalizing the game!

Jan Timman
White is winning
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This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is: 4rbr1/p2pp1p1/2pk4/p1nN1PR1/2P3N1/2P2P2/P7/R3K3 w Q – 0 0
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