From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 12:39:47 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: A promotion piece cannot be a king or a pawn
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A promotion piece cannot be a king or a pawn

Or any other garbage value bigger then QUEEN.

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/movegen.cpp b/src/movegen.cpp
index ea58740..df2b9b8 100644
--- a/src/movegen.cpp
+++ b/src/movegen.cpp
@@ -338,6 +338,10 @@ bool move_is_legal(const Position& pos, const Move m, Bitboard pinned) {
            ||(square_rank(to) == RANK_1 && us != WHITE)) != bool(move_is_promotion(m)))
           return false;
 
+      // The promotion piece, if any, must be valid
+      if (move_promotion_piece(m) > QUEEN || move_promotion_piece(m) == PAWN)
+          return false;
+
       // Proceed according to the square delta between the origin and
       // destination squares.
       switch (direction)