The most ridiculous chess rule !

Every time you promote a pawn FIDE said now you lost a game! It's an illegal move your pawn didn't reach an eighth rank !  So you are lost !  Everyone said it's common sense you will place a piece there anyway so what's the big deal !? FIDE said no no no its a loss !

After they changed from loss to a time punishment, but STILL making it an illegal move! Punishing people for not reaching an eighth rank with a pawn before promotion!  

And now all of a sudden they like OK who cares, if it's uncomfortable maybe you shouldn't reach 8th rank anymore just place a piece straight up. 

Isn't it ridiculous punishing people for it and now they finally realized common sense?  Gosh took a while for them .....

Took them a while

People down voting probably don't know the rules lol or even what I'm talking about

I am far from FIDE yet I found this:

and this:

Yes that's new ! And before that , like 2017 any illegal move was instant loss (blitz and rapid ) !

Also 4.6.1 you mentioned was just RECENTLY (couple of years give or take) implemented! Most ridiculous rule ever, before that if you didn't push your pawn to an 8th rank - ILLEGAL move !!! Time punishment! And before that INSTANT loss !

It's ridiculous because it was very uncomfortable and unnatural for everyone , especially in blitz push your pawn to an 8th rank and only then place a piece, every one did NATURAL thing push pawn to the 7th rank and next move just take the pawn of from 7th rank and place a piece on 8th rank , BUT FIDE punished for that , because your pawn didn't formally reach or touched 8th rank , BIT WHY what's the point any way !? So now after almost decade of punishing people they finally realized how it should be.

I think people who create rules don't really play chess regularly, that's where trouble comes from

Idc about how I promote I just do it however I feel like it. If my opponent complains to the arbiter then I'm gonna lie and say I did it the right way

Don't think anyone will ever complain though because you would have to be a big nerd to do that

Well, that aged pretty badly. It turned out it's you who don't know the rules.

Looks like it was before July 2014 (at least I could not find the list of various ways of promotion so I think the pawn had to be physically placed on the farthest rank) but even then a player had to make 3 illegal moves to lose the game automatically:

I think I only heard of this one,

If you promote a queen to a upside-down rook, it's a rook

Go ahead educate us.

Ok, I found some relevant info in Appendices from 2017 when one illegal move was enough to lose in Rapid

Still it is about any illegal move, not about promotion only

Rapid and blitz.

Even today Grandmasters follow unintentionally this ridiculous rule, you can see them touching an 8th rank first , before promoting.

FIDE always comes up with some ridiculous stuff.

Ok, so what's the plan?

Improve in chess.

Nothing we can do about other things.

What a great ending for this saga

Can only offer draw after move.

Like these ones?

bruh