Author: Eran
Date: 08:42:49 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 02:14:32, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >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 I am sorry for my mistake I made yesterday, but now I am sure at least you can promote or underpromote up to eight pawns plus any pieces you had in a starting game. Eran
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