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Zugzwang

This is a really bad bishop.
How did it get there? It must have taken a route Bc1-b2-e5-h2


the computer saw something like this and that's why it played g4 I don't think there is a defense, and if the white kind don't go to e1 it's being smother mated if the bishop goes to e1 to try to hold it together.

The engine lasts a couple of moves longer than me, but the human method of defense here is more prudent than the engine. When an engine can't find a defense sometimes it will stop trying to defend and instead jetison pawns and pieces to try to last as longa s possible.

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