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Subject: Re: Underpromoting other than to a knight

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 13:14:08 01/30/98

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On January 30, 1998 at 02:20:42, Manfred Rosenboom 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.
>
>You will find underpromotion mostly in endgame studies. Nevertheless
>this
>also occures (very rarely) in real OTB game. Here are two example games:
>

Thanks for the post!  If this was the result of a database search, would
you mind telling us the size of the database, and if these games were
the only two you found?

I'm just trying to get an idea of the probability of underpromotion to
rook or bishop in a given game.

Thanks,
Peter



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