Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:17:56 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 Chessmaster will not let you set up illegal positions either. How should an engine respond with a pawn on the eighth rank? Or two kings of the same color? Or the Black King in check with White to move? At what point do you say that "we can accept this illegal position, but not this one"? jm
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