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Subject: Re: Does Junior 6 have underpromotion?

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:00:11 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 15:57:46, Colin Frayn wrote:

>>>If it can't then it's not playing chess and you could sue the authors for
>>>claiming that it's a chess program. *grin*
>
>>It would play chess. As long as it does not play an illegal move, it plays
>>chess. You can play chess even if you can't underpromote.
>
>Not true.  The rules of chess state that you are allowed to underpromote.
>Provided it allows _opponents_ to underpromote then it's OK, but if it doesn't
>then the game it's playing isn't chess, but some simpler variant.

Junior5 allows the opponent to underpromote and the problem was only that it
does not consider underpromotion in the search.

Uri



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