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Subject: Re: Does Junior 6 have underpromotion?

Author: blass uri

Date: 17:05:28 04/13/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 18:00:45, Trefor Deane wrote:

>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.

You used the wrong position.
many top programs need a long time to see the mate in 8 because the mate is too
deep for them.

The right position to test if a program considers underpromotions is this
position:

[D]7n/3q1P1k/4BK1p/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1

Junior5 cannot see it.

Uri



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