Normal chess promotion morphs the Pawns when they reach the furthest row (8th on a standard board); anything else is "different." Some games, like Mecklenbeck Chess (origin point of the Mecklenbeck Pawn) and most if not all forms of Shogi, let the pawns promote early, on the 6th or 7th rank if not earlier. In Short Sliders (and the Leapers Who Love Them) (and probably a few others), many pieces promote by capturing enemy pieces; Short Sliders also lets pieces promote more than once.Shogi and Short Sliders are also games in which pieces other than Pawns can promote.
Normal chess promotion morphs the Pawns when they reach the furthest row (8th on a standard board); anything else is "different." Some games, like Mecklenbeck Chess (origin point of the Mecklenbeck Pawn) and most if not all forms of Shogi, let the pawns promote early, on the 6th or 7th rank if not earlier. In Short Sliders (and the Leapers Who Love Them) (and probably a few others), many pieces promote by capturing enemy pieces; Short Sliders also lets pieces promote more than once.Shogi and Short Sliders are also games in which pieces other than Pawns can promote.