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The Threat Move is a quite general term in chess or computer chess, since any forced tactical or attacking move might be considered a threat move. Anyway, it seems the term is usually related to null move pruning, and refers to a move which refutes a null move by a considerable fail-soft margin. It might be used along the Killer Heuristic to refute siblings of the child node below the null move. Beside move ordering issues, threat move detection might enable or trigger extensions, for instance mate threat extensions or the Botvinnik-Markoff extension.

See also

• Botvinnik-Markoff Extension
• Hash Move
• Killer Heuristic
• Killer Move
• Mate Killers
• Mater II
• Mate Threat Extensions
• Move Ordering
• Null Move
• PV-Move
• Threat Detection

Forum Posts

• The "same threat extension" as effective way to resolve horizon problem by Sergei Markoff, CCC, October 01, 2003 » Botvinnik-Markoff Extension
• a question to Tord about detecting threats in null move by Uri Blass, CCC, October 03, 2003 » Threat Detection
• Threat detection by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, September 09, 2017 » Threat Detection

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