Author: Larry Griffiths
Date: 07:03:04 07/30/00
I entered the following position in Crafty in the hopes of finding how many
moves were generated when pawn promotion occurs. I am thinking that Crafty will
show the pawn promoting to all 4 piece types I get the following results.
It looks like ply 1 is combining both the white and the black moves and I do not
know what is happening at ply 2.
White(1): display
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
8 | *K| | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
7 | | | | | | | | P |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
6 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
5 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
4 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
3 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
2 | | | | | | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
1 | | | | | | | | K |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
a b c d e f g h
White(1): perft 1
total moves=7 time=0.00
White(1): perft 2
total moves=19 time=0.00
White(1):
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