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Subject: Re: Baloney !

Author: pavel

Date: 20:22:32 02/06/02

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On February 06, 2002 at 22:47:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 06, 2002 at 20:05:18, Eran wrote:
>
>>On February 06, 2002 at 18:12:11, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>[D]4k3/Q3p1Q1/1Q5B/Q1QN1NQ1/4QQ2/B2Q4/8/2R1KR2 w - - acd 4; acn 29; acs 0; bm
>>>Nc7# Nd6# Nf6# Q5g6# Q7g6# Qaa4# Qab5# Qaxe7# Qbb5# Qbb8# Qbc6# Qbg6# Qc8# Qcb5#
>>>Qcc6# Qcxe7# Qd8# Qdb5# Qea4# Qexe7# Qf8# Qfb8# Qg5xe7# Qg7xe7# Qg8# Qh5#; ce
>>>32766; dm 1; pv Nd6#;
>>>
>>>I have found that some programs crash, and others think for minutes on this mate
>>>in 1.
>>
>>Your position is not realistic, because nine White Queen pieces are on the
>>board. In fact, every game each side cannot have more than eight pawns. If a
>>player promotes all his/her eight pawns, there will be no more than eight Queen
>>pieces on his/her side. Therefore, your position is baloney! It never happened.
>>
>>Eran
>
>
>What about the _original_ queen?  8 pawn promotions + one original queen
>= nine queens?


This is only possible if I am playing (with black) against kramnik.

I don't see how else this could be possible.
pavs



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