Author: John Lowe
Date: 05:11:13 12/29/02
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On December 29, 2002 at 07:00:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 29, 2002 at 00:26:50, Les Fernandez wrote: > >>[D]4k3/8/8/8/8/2P5/1PPP4/4K3 w - - >> >>The above pawn structure to the best of my knowledge can't ever be reached since >>the c3 pawn would have had to come from either b2-c2-d2. Are there alot of >>these type of positions or are there a handful of pawn structures that we know >>can't happen? > >I do not understand your question because I do not know what you mean by a lot. > >There are other pawn structures that cannot happen >[D]8/8/8/8/8/P7/PPk5/K7 w - - 0 1 > >Doy you ask for the number or the relative number of illegal pawn structures? > >Uri Hi Uri I wonder if the algorithm for spotting illegal pawn structures is complex or only fairly simple.........? Illegal pawn structues don't happen in real games - human or computer so another question is "could the identification of an illegal pawn structure _ever_ be relevant in chess programming?" I don't think so..........you? John
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