It is promoted to any piece you want, Almost always a Queen.
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promoted to queen or knight if situation demands, almost always queen.
Yea, I guess if you had 2 Kings they'd both have to be checkmated simultaneously in order to lose.
Zug wrote:
Any piece except the King.
...or a Pawn.
TheGrobe wrote:
Zug wrote:
Any piece except the King.
...or a Pawn.
No, he said any piece.
Precicely.
TheGrobe wrote:
Precicely.
From my understanding, a pawn is not considered a piece.
So that's what I think he meant. I can be wrong, however.
Wow, this question seems to be hard to answer on a site filled with chess enthusiasts ;)
Seems an odd distinction to make -- what is a pawn then?
My initial response was somewhat tongue in cheek anyway since the concept of "promotion" implies that it's disallowed so it really didn't need to be stated explicitly.
I have always called the an unspecified member of the full compliment a "bit". So K+R+3P = 5 bits, or on losing a man: "I've lost a bit!"
Well how about that. Really seems to undermine the value of pawns in my mind -- I think I may have to start an equal recognition campaign on behalf of the pawn...
...or maybe I'll just start another game.
tonydal wrote:
Traditionally, there are pieces and there are pawns (as Zug implies). A pawn is not a piece (if you want to lump them all together, I guess you'd have to call them chessmen...or [nowadays] persons).
Chesspersons? I thought I'd gotten over being horrified by non-sexist language: firefighter and police officer and Letter Carrier, all ok by me, but chesspersons makes me want to rent a shabby little motel room over-looking lake Eerie and drink vodka from sun up to sun down while crying softly, chain smoking Newports, and listening to AM oldies radio.
I think you can lump them together in many situations by referring to "material" ... as in: if Qe7, black will lose material.
Pawns aren't pieces technically, but if I'm putting my set away and I count in only 7 white pawns I look up and say, HEY I'm missing a piece!
Wasn't me. I only took a pawn.
A pawn to a pawn is not a promotion. If you left it as just a pawn it would be in the way attacking nothing.
The question is do you have to promote.
Are you all saying, the pawn becomes a king, queen or another chess piece, or just gets iliminated from the board?
tonydal wrote:
Traditionally, there are pieces and there are pawns (as Zug implies). A pawn is not a piece (if you want to lump them all together, I guess you'd have to call them chessmen...or [nowadays] persons).
ROTFL
JG27Pyth wrote:
I think you can lump them together in many situations by referring to "material" ... as in: if Qe7, black will lose material.
A typical male chauvinistic point of few, refering to a queen as "material"!
For that matter, are pawns androgynous or simply transgendered?
What have you done? Now m0tvl is confused.
The truth is when the pawn reaches the other side it can become anything he wants. A rook, a queen, a bishop, a knife, an umbrella, a flying scotchman, an elf, Tony Blair, or even a prime number. I know it, my unkle was a pawn once...
lenoco wrote:
promoted to queen or knight if situation demands, almost always queen.
I made this just for you:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/unusual-mate-in-3
when the pawn reaches the other side what happend?