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Subject: Re: Does Junior 6 have underpromotion?

Author: Trefor Deane

Date: 15:00:45 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 17:00:11, blass uri wrote:

>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

I just discovered that my Sapphire II doesn't consider an opponents possible
underpromotion as well! Tested on the Mate in 8 problem, posted about a week ago

Trefor.



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