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Subject: Re: endgame and not promoting to queen.

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:25:28 02/08/06

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On February 08, 2006 at 17:22:25, John Merlino wrote:

>On February 08, 2006 at 17:15:48, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>
>>Are there any instances where you wouldn't want to promote a pawn into a queen,
>>because it would lead to a stalemate or a loss?
>>
>>Josh
>
>[D]8/5P1k/5K2/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
>
>jm

Sorry, submitted too soon. That was an example of stalemate.

Here's an example of a loss:

[D]5bnr/pP1R1ppp/2k1p3/8/P7/1P2B3/5PPP/qN4K1 w - - 0 1

Promoting to a Knight on b8 is checkmate; promoting to anything else is a loss.

jm

• program to probe for such endings? Joshua Shriver 15:11:23 02/08/06
  • Re: program to probe for such endings? Rafael Andrist 09:51:27 02/09/06
    • Re: program to probe for such endings? Dann Corbit 11:44:26 02/09/06
      • Re: program to probe for such endings? Rafael Andrist 09:42:26 02/10/06
  • Re: program to probe for such endings? Dann Corbit 17:43:21 02/08/06
• Re: endgame and not promoting to queen. Mark Rawlings 14:50:10 02/08/06
  • Re: endgame and not promoting to queen. Dann Corbit 17:44:14 02/08/06

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