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Rules of Chess: Pawns FAQ. Rules of promotion and movement of pawns explained.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I have a 'know-it-all' friend who INSISTS that its true that, by the rules that the official chess masters play, one cannot capture pieces with a pawn that has not yet moved. Besides this site, is there a source that debunks this idea? That is, just in case an internet source isn't 'good enough,' are there any books that clearly state that this supposed rule is false?
If you look at the Pawn diagram on this guide for beginners at the US Chess Federation website, the description says that the White Pawn that hasn't moved yet can attack.
I hope that's authoritative enough for the know-it-all.
If even the official rules aren't good enough for your friend, how about some actual games played by GMs? For example, check out the last round of the recent FIDE championship; the games can be found at http://chessbase.com/news/2005/sanluis/games/wcch14.htm and probably numerous other places.
In these four games, I count three moves of the type in question: 6. dxc3 in Svidler-Anand, 25. bxc3 in Leko-Kasimjanov, and 50... hxg6 in Morozevich-Adams.
If your friend considers every word on the Internet to be inherently untrustworthy, you might try the local library. Just about any book on chess should contain either the rules or records of games, and you won't have to dig through very many games before finding examples.
Once someone promotes a pawn to a queen but the queen is an upside down rook,which is still a queen, if the opponent captured this queen (upside down rook) the opponent gets the points for capturing a queen. is this true?
Before a pawn's promotion: My knight is blocking a pawn from making a promotion, can my opponent either capture my knight and promote, 'side-step' my knight and promote, or can he not do a thing? This has been quite a discussion because he is very difinitive that there is such an ability.
If the knight is directly in front of the pawn, then no, 'Side-stepping' and capturing is not allowed.
Is it possible for the pawn's first move to be an attack? For instance if a pawn was moved forward one space and then diagonally for it's second space on the first move...is that alright?
What you have described is not a legal Pawn move. A Pawn's initial double move is always non-capturing and always straight forward. A Pawn may capture on its first move, but only in the usual way it captures, one space diagonally forward.
While I believe I understand 'promotion' quite well, I do not understand how newly promoted pieces are identified. (lacking a replacement 'lost' piece)
In a chess tournament spare pieces are usually available. If not, it is customary to use an upside-down rook to represent a second queen. Also, many expensive chess sets come with two White Queens and two Black Queens.
if moving a pawn to the other end leads to a check..then can there be a promotion and check together?
I have two questions. Does a pawn have to promote when it gets to the other side of the board? And my other question is: when there is for example more than one queen (the second queen from promoting), what is used to take the second queens place?
Please replace the misspelled occurrence of 'alltogether' with the correctly spelled 'altogether'. TIA, Art Bergquist
you didnt cover en passant...
'For the en passant capture, see the FAQ page for en passant capture.'
Thanks for the great advice and tips
Although 'altogether' would be spelled correctly it wouldn't be the correct word for the context. What is required is a space, so that it reads as two words - 'all together'. Of course if the page is up for this kind of criticism I could point out that Pawns do not promote. Players promote, and their Pawns are promoted.
bryce wrote on Mon, Mar 1, 2010 11:27 PM UTC:what is en oposon
Ive come across a problem where a pawn is taking my pawn after my pawn jumps two spaces and lands next to the pawn that is overtaking me. consider the situation Black pawn on B2 White pawn on A4 Black pawn moves to B4 White pawn takes black pawn by sliding to B3 I've found this problem in a few online chess games. Clarify for me if this is actually allowed to happen or not please. Based on my chess experience, i was under the impression pawns could not be taken by another pawn unless it was across from it. say... Black pawn on A3 White pawn on B2 Whoever's turn it was could take the opposing pawn. But the situation above i would need clarifying. Thanks :)
H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2011 02:46 PM UTC:Yes, that is allowed, and called 'en passant' capture. It was added to chess at the same time as the rule that pawns were allowed to make a double step, to prevent they could abuse that to pass a Pawn they could not have safely passed with only single steps.
It is important to point out that 'en passant' can only be performed in the move immediately following the double-step move. This is the only chance to capture 'en passant'. It can't be done in the following moves. /Mats
You gave pawn FAQ but didn't include en passant.
Which should be shown with response to pawn's first move.
If your pawn is on its 5th rank and a person moves adjacent to the left or
right of your pawn (its 4th rank) on you next turn only you can take that
pawn because it had to move through attack.
[Editor's note: Thank you for your comment. We actually link here to a page on En Passant but it would be good to describe them in brief, perhaps with the language you use. Would be good to add some animation illustrating en passant too. Thanks again.]
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