[Retros] Phoenix Promotions

[Noam Elkies]

Joost de Heer <joost at sanguis.xs4all.nl> writes:


> An original piece gets captured, and then reappears through promotion 

> (the other way round (promotion to a piece, and then an original piece 

> of that kind is captured) is NOT a phoenix, since there is no 'rebirth' 

> aspect in this case).


True, though I wonder if one should count 1...d8=K! as a sort of phoenix
in Caillaud's H2# (4th place LP 1/2008) that you quote earlier today :-)

NDE