Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 16:36:26 09/20/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 19:05:56, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On September 20, 1999 at 16:15:46, James Robertson wrote: > >>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. > >There are some positions where promoting to a Rook is the only winning move, as >a Queen promotion would stalemate, and a Knight wouldn't be enough to be able to >mate the opponent with. Unfortunately, I don't have any examples. :( >In any case, such positions are VERY rare. > >Jeremiah Here there are some examples: 8/1P6/k7/8/1K6/8/8/8 w 8/k1P5/2K5/8/8/8/8/8 w José. P.S. The Saavedra position is more interesting, but I do not have it handy.
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