Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 23:14:32 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 20:37:18, Eran wrote: >On February 06, 2002 at 20:22:52, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On February 06, 2002 at 20:19:51, Eran wrote: >>[snip] >>>Can't have two bishops of the same color? Wrong! I'll tell you why. Let's >>>suppose in any game one White Bishop stands on the h1 light square and you move >>>a White Pawn to the a8 light square and underpromote to White Bishop. That is a >>>legal move and now you have two white Bishops on the same color of the light >>>squares. Now, do you understand it? ;-) >> >>Now, please explain how you can manage that with 9 queens on the board. > >We always can setup a position with more than 8 white or black queens and some, >but not all, chess programs play okay with it. However, 9 or more white queens >for isntance never happened in any game between two chess players anywhere >anytime. So why is it important to you? <shrugging> > >If you have four double pawns on the a, c, e and g files, then you always can >underpromote all the eight pawns to 8 light-square White Bishops! :-)) > >Eran The point is: If you use all your eight pawns to promote/produce 8 queens(+the one you had when the game started), then how are you going to get another bishop of the same color?? in this case a black squared one... Regards Jonas
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