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Subject: Re: Double queen checks

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 12:43:07 09/20/99

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On September 20, 1999 at 07:15:14, Anthony Bailey wrote:

>On September 19, 1999 at 18:40:30, Larry Applebaum wrote:
>>Pardon me for being dense here, can you post a position which leads to
>>a double check by two queens?
>
>Eugene Nalimov:
>>White queen H7, white pawn G7, black king F7. White moves G8=Q. You can put
>>white king and a lot of pieces anywhere on the board.
>
>And of course, also there's the en passant option:
>White queens a2 and a4, White pawn a5,  Black king a6, Black pawn b7.
>White checks with either of his queens Qc4+
>Black interposes b7-b5
>White takes a6xb5 ep, giving discovered checks with both queens.
>
>Not likely in practice, but a great favourite in retrograde analysis, etc.
>
> - Anthony.

Yes, this is an interesting problem for move generators as well. Since my move
generator does not generate illegal moves like most move generators, I had to
put in special code to handle both the taking and the taken pawn via e.p. and
attacks through their associated source/destination squares.

KarinsDad :)



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