Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:51:37 02/09/01
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On February 09, 2001 at 08:40:05, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 09, 2001 at 08:25:02, Hans Havermann wrote: > >>On February 09, 2001 at 06:51:15, leonid wrote: >> >>>>[D]1bqQBnRn/3N2Qb/Q1QN2np/1Q1Q1qpk/4Qqbn/2B1Qrnn/2Q5/K1R5 w - - >> >>Black has too many promotions. :) > >Right. > >Most chess programs cannot analyze positions when black has 7 promotions and 2 >pawns. > >Chessbase programs do not accept the position and the engine is not >important(after Board, Setup position,paste Fen I cannot tell the program ok. > >I think that it is a bug in the chessbase interface because the interface is >made for many engines and it is possible that some of the engines have no >problem to analyze the illegal position. > >I think that the interface should allow putting illegal position in the board >and I do not understand the decision not to allow putting illegal positions. > >Uri Well, look at it this way though, this position crashes Crafty when I paste it into Crafty running in text mode, and I can paste the position into Winboard, but niether TCB nor Crafty will analyze the position once it's there. I suppose I could fix the position so it IS legal, but then it would be a different position. Pete
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