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Article #92Re: GNU Chess wins London computer chess tourney
From: Warwick Allison
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:57
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:57
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engelhardt@nbivax.nbi.dk writes:
>cracraft@ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:
>> NOW GNU 3.1
>> White (time) Black (time)
>> 51) b2a3 6:51 c2c1B 2:28
>Why would anybody *ever* promote a pawn to a bishop?????? A queen should be
>able to do the job...
In the case that a promotion to queen would have caused a stalemate (not that
this was the case here), or that a stalemate was forcable later in the game
(which could have been the case here, considering how down White was).
Besides, I thought the idea of chess was to win, not to BLITZ. GNUchess might
have felt sorry for the opponent :-)
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Warwick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cs.uq.oz.au!warwick From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: Re: GNU Chess wins London computer chess tourney Message-ID: <9896@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 20 Aug 92 02:57:01 GMT References: <9208170054.AA02933@wheat-chex> <1992Aug19.142102.982@nbivax.nbi.dk> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au Distribution: gnu Lines: 27