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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Dustin, Jim,....anyone?

(watching: As the World Turns)

I have a chess question. When you bring your little pawn guy to the other side of the bored, and you can pick a guy you want to bring back, does that guy just trade places with your pawn guy, or do you get to keep your pawn guy too?

posted by amyjo @ 1:59 PM  

5 Comments:

  • At 9:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    That was a great question. I always played that when you were promoted or swapped, you did it on the square that it was reached on. But, i wasn't confident because i could see how it could go both ways so i did a little research. It took a while as no one really spells it out so i went right for the source. here is what i found...


    According to the FIDE (FIDE stands for "Federation Internationale des Echecs" - also known as the World Chess Federation.)

    c. in the case of the promotion of a pawn, when the pawn has been removed from the chessboard and the player's hand has released the new piece after placing it on the promotion square. If the player has released from his hand the pawn that has reached the promotion square, the move is not yet made, but the player no longer has the right to play the pawn to another square.

    Taken from the: FIDE Laws of Chess Sections 4.4-4.6

     

  • At 9:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    actually upon reading your question, i misunderstood. i thought you were asking if the newly selected guy went to the square of promotion or back to where it started on the board. i guess i asked my own question. to answer yours: your lil pawn guy gets swapped and is taken from the board.

     

  • At 7:48 AM, Blogger amyjo said…

    Thank you for taking the time to help me out, I appreciate it.

     

  • At 9:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Yah, the Pawn is removed, and the new piece is put in its place, only one peice stays on the board.

    FWIW...You can promote a Pawn to a Queen even if you have another Queen on the board. That means you can have as many as nine Queens -- the original Queen plus eight promoted Pawns.

    Dustin

     

  • At 12:51 PM, Blogger amyjo said…

    oh, thats sper cool, thanx dustin.

     

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