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Subject: Re: Underpromtion Test Position

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 11:11:49 03/08/00

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On March 08, 2000 at 12:50:31, Brian Richardson wrote:

>Tinker ran into the following against Redbear the other day:
>
>[D]8/3b1P2/8/4n3/3k1KP1/8/8/8 w - -
>
>Tinker moved f8 "thinking" f8=N to avoid the fork ng6, but "forgot" to
>specifically mention the promotion piece, so the move f8=Q was made (in Winboard
>and by ICS).  This created errors and Tinker lost the game.  This is the first
>time in close to 1,500 games on ICS that an underpromotion has come up.
>
>Just thought I would post it so others can check their programs too...


You have been lucky.  I once had a game Nimzo99 vs Junior 5 in which Nimzo
underpromoted twice to a Knight (same game).  I get one every few hundred games
I think.
Jim Walker



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