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Subject: Re: Baloney!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:00:41 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 20:37:18, Eran wrote:
[snip]
>We always can setup a position with more than 8 white or black queens and some,
>but not all, chess programs play okay with it. However, 9 or more white queens
>for isntance never happened in any game between two chess players anywhere
>anytime. So why is it important to you? <shrugging>

Because it can happen in a legal game.

>If you have four double pawns on the a, c, e and g files, then you always can
>underpromote all the eight pawns to 8 light-square White Bishops! :-))

No argument there.  You could have 10 bishops total, with 9 of the same color.
I have seen one game with 5 bishops and two games with 6 (games that really
happened).



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