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Subject: Re: Promotion frequency

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:55:04 07/22/02

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On July 23, 2002 at 01:49:18, Russell Reagan wrote:

>What about always promoting to queen unless there is a reason not to like
>immediate stalemate? Are there any other situations where it is beneficial to
>underpromote where immediate stalemate isn't involved?

There are many checkemates with knight promotion that would not win or even draw
if otherwise.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/minor.htm
http://www.chessbaseusa.com/T-NOTES/081901.htm
http://www.brianwallchess.com/emails/Underpromotion.shtml



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