Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:32:22 09/03/98
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On September 03, 1998 at 10:32:27, Steven Schwartz wrote: >On September 03, 1998 at 10:24:05, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>On September 03, 1998 at 00:06:49, Serge Desmarais wrote: >> >><snip> >> >>I guess we have strayed too far away of the basic purpose of CCC, which is to >>discuss computer chess. I wonder why the original question was posted. Did >>someone notice a chess engine which failed to promote a pawn? > >Maybe I can help bring it back... >Are there (or have there ever been) any software chess playing >programs or stand-alones that will actually ALLOW a pawn promotion >to a pawn?? >- Steve In a word, yes... at a couple of the 1970's era ACM events this happened... in one case the program pushed a pawn to the 8th and left it. There was a big discussion about what to do. Levy ultimately ruled that the game could continue, but if the pawn on the 8th caused a problem, that side would forfeit. The program doing this won anyway, even though the opponent thought there was a queen there. In fact, the program pushed a second pawn to the 8th first, then mated the opponent. strange story. George Koltanowski (sp?) used to tell my favorite promotion story, about playing a stranger on an airplane, where the stranger promoted his pawn into a *king*. Kolty the promoted one of *his* pawns into an opponent's king, then he mated all three with one move. It was cute... hope someone has heard that and remembers the position... :)
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