Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 09:51:41 05/04/05
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On May 04, 2005 at 12:35:51, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On May 04, 2005 at 12:00:17, Dave Hague wrote: > >>Can someone tell me if it is illegal to move a pawn to the opponents back row if >>it will be captured on the opponents next move? I know it is a waste of a pawn, >>but is it an illegal move? >> >>Thanks in advance:) > >When a pawn is moved to the opponents back row, it must be replaced by one of >the 4 higher ranking pieces of the same color: Queen, Rook, Bishop or Pawn. This >is called a Pawn promotion. Once the pawn has been promoted. The turn passes to >the opponent and he is free to capture it if he can or not capture it. Whether >or not it is capturable has no effect on the legality of such Pawn moves. > >Note BTW, that by such promotions, it is possible to have more than the usual 1 >Queen, 2 Rooks, 2 Bishops or 2 Knights of the same color even though most chess >sets do not support this, but it is rare enough to justify their not supporting >this. > >By the way you phrased your query, it sounds like you were not replacing the >pawn by another piece, which represents an uncompleted move, which is illegal. BTW, here is the FIDE handbook: http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp where you will find the Laws of Chess, which are the rules governing the play of the game: http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101 The section the specificly bears on pawn promotion is 3.7e Note that in informal play not all of these rules are strictly adhered to of course. These rules represent formal play and are the ones used by any player involved in a tournament including professional players. In short, these are the official rules of the game of chess.
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