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Author Re: Promotion to a Bishop
Joost de Heer

2005-04-07, 6:08 pm

> But Ian, I'm sure, is well aware of both reasons for
quote:

> underpromotion. What he was asking about is the kind of whimsical
> underpromotion that occurred in this particular game--where the
> Bishop and the Queen were equivalent.


In one of his Dutch books (I think it was 'Schaakcuriosa'), Krabbe mentions a
Hoogovens tourney where this happens twice in the same round. Unfortunately I
can't find my copy of the book right now, but perhaps someone with a database
can look this up?

Joost
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