Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:49:35 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 16:15:46, James Robertson wrote:
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>My program only generates Queen and Knight promotions, as I have never seen a
>position where a Bishop/Rook promotion was any good.... I have run across a few
>nice Knight promotion positions, though.
What if you want to generate a stalemate? (e.g. those pieces would be blocked by
your own pinned pieces and you are hopelessly behind...)
Seems like the one rare instance where it would be useful. {If leaving it as a
pawn were still legal, no doubt that would be even better}.
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