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Subject: Re: Underpromoting other than to a knight

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:36:19 01/29/98

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On January 29, 1998 at 18:26:05, Howard Exner wrote:

>On January 29, 1998 at 17:57:00, David Fotland wrote:
>
>>I know that some positions require underpromoting a pawn to a knight,
>>but are there any that win with an underpromote to a bishop or rook?
>>
>>I'd like to limit the move generator to just queen and knight
>>promotions.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>David Fotland
>
>I'm not sure if I've ever seen an under promotion other than
>a Knight from an actual OTB game. Promoting to bishops or rooks
>is a nice theme in composed problems however.
> Does anyone have an example of an OTB game with a bishop or rook
>under promotion?

I didn't save positions, but I have seen at least one or two on ICC
with Crafty where promotion to a rook was needed to avoid stalemating
the opponent.  I do 'em all...  although I only do =Q in the q-search.



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