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Subject: Re: annoying en passant x-ray

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 15:50:07 11/30/03

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>>The rule I would follow is:  "You cannot play a move which puts your own king
>>into check."  I hope that was built into all chess engines.
>>
>>Bob D.
>
>Sure, but if you want to implement legal move generation,
>to avoid making/unmaking invalid moves, you need some other conditions.
>Ep is a bit annoying, all others are easier to implement.
>Pinned piece determination is required, but also fine for other purposes.
>
>Gerd

There are always these pathological positions.
This one to get the idea of legal move generation ;-)

[D] 8/5p2/pP2k2p/P3q3/1p2Q3/rR2K1Rr/3B3P/2b3n1 w - -

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