Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:18:20 02/26/06
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On February 26, 2006 at 17:09:21, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 26, 2006 at 16:53:20, Matt Breton wrote: > >>In what instances does it make sense to promote to a bishop over another piece? > >to generate stalemate. > >For examples see > >http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/minor.htm or to prevent stalemate(generating stalemate was in a study that I am not sure if it is correct because 3 pieces against 2 may win. the previous examples were bad examples because promotion to bishop is not the only way. Here is an example from a practical game when promotion to bishop is the only way from that site. [D]6k1/8/4p3/4Pp1p/5P1P/3Rn2K/6p1/8 b - - 0 1 Uri
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