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Subject: Re: underpromotion?

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 11:05:36 01/19/99

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On January 19, 1999 at 06:57:57, James T. Walker wrote:

>I posted a game about a month ago in which Nimzo99 underpromoted two times
>against Junior 5.0 to win the game.  The first was a knight and the second
>underpromotion was to a rook(The only move).  Also, in recent Chess Life
>magazine there was a problem,mate in 8 I think, that involved underpromotion.
>Junior thought it was mate in 4 or something like that because it did not allow
>for the under promotion.  This makes me worry about using Junior for analysis in
>games where undrpromotion is possible.  I still like the program's style of
>play.
>Jim Walker

I can see that happening easily, but not often.  My program plays on ICC, and
maybe twice it has failed to account for an enemy knight promotion, putting me
in check, and causing problems.  But it's on the list of stuff to do, someday.

Will



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