How to promote correctly? - Chess Forums

gingerninja2003

Oct 28, 2018

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#1

Although i'm pretty sure i know what i'm doing i just want to double check as there have been many controversies surrounding how to do it.

What i usually do is push the pawn to the square, take the pawn away, place down the queen and then hit the clock.

Although i have seen people place the queen on the promotion square, take the pawn away and then hit the clock.

So according to FIDE (or the ECF) what's the correct thing to do?

gingerninja2003

Oct 28, 2018

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#2

tripledown wrote:

gingerninja2003 wrote:

Although i'm pretty sure i know what i'm doing i just want to double check as there have been many controversies surrounding how to do it.

What i usually do is push the pawn to the square, take the pawn away, place down the queen and then hit the clock.

Although i have seen people place the queen on the promotion square, take the pawn away and then hit the clock.

So according to FIDE (or the ECF) what's the correct thing to do?

big difference...

Between what?

blueemu

Oct 28, 2018

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#3

FIDE rules effective 2018:

4.6	The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:
4.6.1	the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival,
4.6.2	removing the pawn and putting the new piece on the square of promotion may occur in any order.
4.6.3	If an opponent’s piece stands on the square of promotion, it must be captured.

gingerninja2003

Oct 28, 2018

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#4

blueemu wrote:

FIDE rules effective 2018:

4.6

The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:

4.6.1 the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival, 4.6.2 removing the pawn and putting the new piece on the square of promotion may occur in any order. 4.6.3 If an opponent’s piece stands on the square of promotion, it must be captured.

I assume this will be the same for the ECF.

blueemu

Oct 28, 2018

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#5

Don't know. All the cool kids use FIDE rules, anyway.

Bad_Dobby_Fischer

Oct 28, 2018

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#6

blueemu wrote:

FIDE rules effective 2018:

4.6

The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:

4.6.1 the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival, 4.6.2 removing the pawn and putting the new piece on the square of promotion may occur in any order. 4.6.3 If an opponent’s piece stands on the square of promotion, it must be captured.

by another piece, right? not the pawn lol

gingerninja2003

Oct 28, 2018

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#7

blueemu wrote:

Don't know. All the cool kids use FIDE rules, anyway.

I've just checked, the ECF do use the FIDE laws of chess.

gingerninja2003

Oct 28, 2018

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#8

When a queen isn't immediately available and you're in time trouble what do you do then as there was some trouble between Karpov and Kasparov in their game at Linares in 1993 where Kasparov captured a piece on the 1st rank with his pawn announced 'queen', hit the clock and then looked for a queen, in the meantime Karpov made an illegal move. Kasparov said that Karpov couldn't do that as he was in check and Karpov replied 'with what? it could be a bishop on d1 for all I know' since Kasparov hadn't found a queen yet. (in the end the arbiters took Karpov's move back and gave him +2 minutes on his clock due to Kasparovs 'illegal move'

M_L_1

Oct 28, 2018

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#9

Grab the pawn throw it across the room grab the queen and then get ur clock and throw it out of the window

RyanSarson

Oct 1, 2019

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#10

Bad_Dobby_Fischer wrote:

blueemu wrote:

FIDE rules effective 2018:

4.6

The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:

4.6.1 the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival, 4.6.2 removing the pawn and putting the new piece on the square of promotion may occur in any order. 4.6.3 If an opponent’s piece stands on the square of promotion, it must be captured.

by another piece, right? not the pawn lol

trying to understand 4.6.3, i googled and ended up here. i thought the same thing at first but then realized it means the square of promotion in this case is on one of the files adjacent to the pawn's file, ie, the pawn must first capture the piece (diagonally) before it is promoted. a piece on the same file, blocking the pawn, would not have to be captured before promotion - it could just move away, freeing up the square of promotion for the pawn.