What If A Pawn Could Promote To A King?

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Joel_Andrews_Is_The_Best

When A Pawn Reaches The 8th Rank (But First For Black), It Promotes Into A Rook, Knight, Bishop Or Queen, But Not A King. So, What If It Can Promote Into A King? Here's What Will Happen!

1st. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then Your Opponent Will Be Very Confused Who To Checkmate Or Not.

2nd. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then The Promoted King Will Next To The King.

3rd. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then In Endgames, A King VS King Endgame Is Still A Draw.

4th. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then The Promoted King Will Still Get Captured.

Lastly. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then The Promoted King Will Not Get Checkmated.

On The Flip Side, You Are Not Allowed To Castle With The Promoted King.

And On The Bright Side, The Promoted King Can Block Checks!

123tigerX

Interesting idea

123tigerX

Maybe this will be introduced in the next update

Joel_Andrews_Is_The_Best

Unfortunately, I Forgot Too Add "Pawn" Between "A" & "Could".

How Sad!

Fetoxo
#4 yes i was thinking which piece is the „a”. Maybe a special variation? Lol
ChessMasteryOfficial

Idea of promoting a pawn to a king may seem intriguing, but it would likely disrupt the balance and integrity of the game.

RideZen2

That's a different & interesting thought regardless of if or how it would work. 🙂

nklristic

If there are 2 kings of the same color, there is a civil war and you lose automatically.

Joel_Andrews_Is_The_Best

Fortunately, I Added "Pawn" Between "A" & "Could".

Hot_Rash

We would have extinction royalty

Hot_Rash

İt can promote to a queen or king RIP

Brackmar
Joel_Andrews_Is_The_Best a écrit :

1st. If A Pawn Can Promote Into A King, Then Your Opponent Will Be Very Confused Who To Checkmate Or Not.

Why should he be confused?

He can even promote one of his own pawns to a King of his opposite (i.e. your) color.

Then he would checkmate the three Kings at once.

In this example

 

the playing goes like this:

1. Kc2 threatens Bd4#

1... h1=K now, after Bd4 only one BK is mate, the other one is stalemate

but 2. a8=BK and now black has only one move:

2... Kb8 and white wins:

3. h7 Ka8

4. h8=Q### (triple checkmate!).

zepharuslee2000

ifbqcan marrybk

V_Awful_Chess

If you kept a queen as a promotion option I doubt it would get underpromoted to more often than a rook or knight.

So I don't think it would make much difference.

As a correction though, King+nonroyal King vs King can result in checkmate.

Kacper7986

I think it would be too complicated

KentexplorerchessW

I think it would be dumb because you win by checkmate and checkmate is when there's no moves that escape a check and your in check lets say they skewer your two king fork your too kings double check both kings then that's checkmate you also just added a peice to the board that cant checkmate the king.

KentexplorerchessW

also if you could the code for that is really laggy adding it would make Chess.com twice as laggy Im a proggramar even though Im a kid

MT18620

In give away chess you can have 2 or more kings