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Subject: Re: annoying en passant x-ray

Author: Peter McKenzie

Date: 14:18:29 12/02/03

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On December 01, 2003 at 08:55:45, scott farrell wrote:

>On December 01, 2003 at 00:36:11, Peter McKenzie 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
>>
>>I didn't bother to try fixing your diagram but I think I can guess what you're
>>talking about.  In which case you might be interested in this link (look at the
>>last position) to help you test whatever fix you make:
>>
>>http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~peter/perft.htm
>>
>Peter,
>I think your perft calcs for that position is out.

which position?

>
>That complicated position:
>r1b1k2r/pp2bppp/5n2/3q4/8/3BPQ2/PBP2PPP/RN2K2R/ b KQkq - 0 0

this position isn't on my page is it?

>
>I verified these against crafty 19.3
>
>plies perft
>1    50
>2    2159
>3    99925
>4    4128960 (crafty), chompster(4128961) - the difference is probably draws
>5    ... too slow
>
>Scott
>
>>cheers,
>>Peter



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