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Subject: Re: If you like to solve a mate... Correction!

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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