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Subject: Re: annoying en passant x-ray

Author: Matthias Gemuh

Date: 23:47:58 11/30/03

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On November 30, 2003 at 18:26:15, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On November 30, 2003 at 17:18:19, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>[b]8/8/8/8/3R1p1k/8/4P3/6K1 w - - 0 1
>>
>>white moves pawn, black can not capture en passant. wonderfull, breaks my new
>>move generator.
>>
>>Uri, I think you are the expert on this. Ideas for workarounds ? :-)
>>
>>But the main reason I am posting is: are there any other situations like the
>>above where I can with one move move 2 pieces out of the way of an x-ray attack
>>?
>>
>>Georg
>
>the way to handle this is to generate all moves, elimnate those that still leave
>you in check, if you don''t have a move and you are not in check, that is
>stalemate and if you are still in check no matter what you do - that's mate.



Georg's aim is to avoid this slow method !





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