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Chess Puzzle: Easy For Humans, Impossible For Computers #2

June 12, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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This brilliant chess puzzle composed by Joseph Hashek, is something that modern chess engines are unable to understand! To key to the puzzle is the fortress, which white makes and manages to draw the game! Watch the video and see how all that goes in action!
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Joseph Hashek, 1932, White to draw
This position in Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is : rkb5/1p6/pBp5/PPPp4/1K1Pp1P1/4Pp1p/5P1P/8 w – – 0 0
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