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flawed measure of complexity

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Friday, 7 May 2010, at 3:01 a.m.

In Response To: flawed measure of complexity (Bill Riles)

Stick is exactly right...you can promote a pawn to any piece you want, so in theory each side could end up with as many as ten knights.

As I said, this would never happen in practice. Once in a long while, in a real game, there will arise a situation where promoting to a knight is correct. For example maybe you execute a combination where you sacrifice your queen so that you can promote your pawn to a knight that forks the king and queen so you get your queen back and wind up a piece ahead, whereas promoting to a queen would leave both you and your opponent with a queen each. But King and Queen versus King and four Knights will never come up in a real game. The computer analysis is fascinating in a weird kind of way, though.

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