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Expensive wooden chess sets sometimes include extra queens (1 White, 1 Black), allowing you to properly enjoy famous games that had four queens on the board. The Alekhine - Capablanca WCC Match had one such game. Doug, I have always wondered why limited promotion rules became popular at the same time as chess playing computers - which have no difficulty in putting any number of queens on the display screen. As for your 'rule reversal', King and Pawns endings would become pointless.
David,
Yeah, King-and-Pawn endings would be a problem with my 'promote-only-to-live-species' rule. Either one would have to make some sort of exception, like 'When there's nothing left but Pawns and Kings, then you can promote to anything' or 'A Pawn can always promote to a ..er.. Man' -- or one would have to somehow shorten the game so that Pawn-and-King endgames never occurred (e.g Extinction Chess, which follows my rule in a trivial sense).
Yeah, King-and-Pawn endings would be a problem with my 'promote-only-to-live-species' rule. Either one would have to make some sort of exception, like 'When there's nothing left but Pawns and Kings, then you can promote to anything' or 'A Pawn can always promote to a ..er.. Man' -- or one would have to somehow shorten the game so that Pawn-and-King endgames never occurred (e.g Extinction Chess, which follows my rule in a trivial sense).
I was taught that when a pawn promotes, it can 'attack diagonally' into the final row, giving the promoted piece a degree of protection.
I've reviewed the rules.
They are absolutely silent on this notion.
I do not, even in the slightest degree, like...what I suspect to be the case. Pawns definitely should have this power.
PLEASE POST YOUR RULING TO MY E-MAIL ADDRESS:
Your question is not even coherent enough to answer.
Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Oct 9, 2006 12:06 AM UTC:Judd, you are apparently asking if a pawn can move diagonally forward when moving from the 7th to the 8th rank. Unless it is capturing an opponent's piece, the answer is no. A standard FIDE pawn may never move diagonally forward unless it is capturing. There are other types of pawns that may move diagonally forward, such as the Berolina pawn, but they have their own limitations.
Flowerman is interested in promotion, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25122. These comments do not exhaust the possibilities, http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=25066. Is Upchess about promotion or just morphing: http://chessvariants.org/index/listcomments.php?itemid=Upchess? Here there are three zones; Pawns promote normally but pieces promote, or morph, on the inside, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/contest/bigouter.html, in Big Outer. Zelig Chess and M-Chess are related to Upchess, basing the metamorphoses on files: http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/mchess.html, http://www.chessvariants.org/diffmove.dir/zeligchess.html. But the Querquisite has the relative antiquity of 1947. And Pocket Mutation, http://www.chessvariants.org/large.dir/pocketmutation.html, was once played.
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A related question: Has anyone tried turning this particular restriction around, restricting pawn promotion to those piece-types that have not been lost? (i.e., if you lose a Queen, you couldn't get it back through promotion, and if you lost both Knights, you couldn't get them back.)