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Subject: Re: Pawn Promotion.

Author: Tim Foden

Date: 03:21:41 07/30/00

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On July 30, 2000 at 01:41:08, Larry Griffiths wrote:

>I am working on the last part of my piece Generation/Move code which is Pawn
>promotion.
>
>My old program only promoted to Queens.  I want to make this verison promote
>pawns to Knights, Bishops, Rooks or Queens.
>
>How many of you have this type of code in your programs?
>
>I think I have found a way to do it, but am open to any suggestions on how to do
>it.   :)

In GLC I do it the way I think a lot of programs do... Whenever a pawn promotion
is generated, GLC simply generates all 4 alternative moves.  Of course, this
means that your 'move' data type has to be able to record the promotion piece.



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