promoting to a pawn cannot help at all!
Promoting to....A PAWN ? Can it Help ?
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ZlyphrrPlayz wrote:
promoting to a pawn cannot help at all!
Only to achieve stalemate in an otherwise lost position. Of course, this assumes that the unpromoted pawn will not turn to other pieces at a later time (like some have suggested earlier to 'delay' promotion instead), because if this option is possible, then changing to other pieces is forced (and takes up a full turn) in an otherwise stalemate position.
Oct 31, 2017
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#167
If meeces were a pawn & peeces were a queen
then not to promote would freek'em like Halloween !
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....time to dance....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxcM3nCsglA
Oct 31, 2017
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#168
3 cheers for our resident Ghostess! the Halloween Queen!
Hip hip! (crowd goes wild)
Hip hip! (crowd goes even wilder)
Hip hip! (crowd goes mad freaking bonkers)
Oct 31, 2017
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#169
pawn might need to stay as a pawn if it fails the interview to get a promotion.
It's not a promotion then. I suppose you could make 1 move moving the pawn to the 8th rank, and then make a separate move actually changing it to a piece, for the stalemate situations, but after, if your only move is to change it to a piece, then u have no choice. Interesting.
Oct 31, 2017
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#172
Think of wut it'd do to the composition world. You know that little subterranean place where only tiny white rabbits go ?
Oct 31, 2017
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#173
I guess it depends....would the pawn be able to reverse direction and move back in the opposite direction....like a ricochet????
What if you are trying to achieve stalemate? It could help if having no legal moves is the best possible choice. I can think of this being used in crazy chess puzzles, but it probably wouldn't ever be used in an actual professional game.
Nov 1, 2017
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#176
TY Snook.....
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As a reminder to the naysayers, "the rules were what they were (1862)" & then someone changed them....for the worse.
why it what instance would someone need to promote a pawn to.. um.. a pawn. The point of the promotion is to upgrade your pawn into a piece that is crucial to your strategy that has been previously knocked out by the opponent like the queen.. it wouldn't really be a promotion of the pawn was kept a pawn
wait is it even possible?
"When a pawn has reached the eighth square, the player has the option of selecting a piece, whether such piece has previously been lost or not, whose names and powers it shall then assume, or of deciding that it shall remain a pawn."
Steinitz explained the purpose of this rule by referring to the position diagrammed
1.bxa8=P!
Don't you see that it's the only move where ur FORCED to decide (by rulebook nonetheless !) on something....AFTER you've made your play ?
You don't ever hafta punch your clock. You don't ever hafta resign before being #'ed. You don't ever hafta accept en passant. You don't ever hafta castle or do anything on a chessboard if u don't wanna. You're free to play however u want - except promotion !
See how dumb this rule is ?
It's not true that you're forced to decide after you've moved; the move is not complete until the pawn has been promoted. You don't have to capture en passant and you don't have to move your pawn to the 8th rank. It's silly to say you don't have to do anything else (except promotion) you don't want to. If you're in check, you must get out of check. You're not free to play however you want. You must play in accordance with the rules.