Author: Uri Blass
Date: 02:20:03 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 04:37:07, Scott Gasch wrote: >I don't understand; it's a legal chess position -- any program should be able to >handle it... You are wrong There are programs that were not build to analyze legal positions but to play games. A program can safely assume that the number of queens of one side is at most 8 because it is going to never see a position when one side has 9 queens in it's search. Even if the opponent is very weak the program may mate a lot before it gets 9 queens on the board. I doubt if it is possible to convince the program to promote all it's pawns because it is usually going to find a faster mate without promoting most of the pawns. It also seems safe to assume that there are no more than 8 rooks and no more than 8 bishops or knights if the target is only to play games and not to analyze. Uri
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