Author: Serge Desmarais
Date: 21:06:49 09/02/98
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On September 02, 1998 at 12:33:33, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On September 02, 1998 at 01:06:23, Serge Desmarais wrote: > >>On September 01, 1998 at 22:04:32, Danniel Corbit wrote: >> >>>Is it possible to promote a pawn to a pawn? [i.e. no change?] >>>I know it makes no sense. I just want to know if it is legal by the rules of >>>chess. >> >> >> Nope! A pawn, when it reaches respectively the 8th rank for White and the 1st >>rank for Black, MUST be changed for any piece of ITS OWN COLOUR, EXCEPT a pawn >>or a king. In fact, the is changed IN GETTING to the last square of its file. >>The move is NOT completed until the new piece enters the board, which means that >>you cannot press your clock button until you put the new piece on board (though >>if NO piece of the kind you want is available at around, you can stop the clocks >>while you go get one). Also, there must not be a too long hesitation from you >>before putting the new piece in play (you cannot push a white pawn on the eight >>rank and wait 5 minutes to decide what piece to chose from!) It must be done, as >> most as possible, in 2 consecutive and "fluid" movements. Often, the pawn >>doesn't effectively reach the last rank, it is removed from the 7th (for White, >>for example) and the new piece is almost simultaneously placed on the eth rank >>(same column). >> >>Note, the same rule concerning the fluidity of your gestures is applied to a >>capture (moving a piece onto an occupied square AND immediately removing the >>captured piece from the board) to the castle and to the en passant capture. All >>these "special" 2-movements moves are considered ONE legal move and every step >>must be completed before it is considered done and you be allowed to press your >>clock. >> >>Serge Desmarais > >That having been said, how many people are there who, in over the board speed >chess tournaments, or in standard-time-control games with players both in >extreme time trouble, who have not observed the following, and maybe even done >it themselves? > >(1) In blitz: Although "illegal," someone makes an illegal move and the >opponent does not catch it till the game has progressed a few moves. >Specifically, someone pushes a pawn to the eighth rank and then it is instantly >captured by the opponent after which he punches the clock and the game >continues. No-one complains. The game just continues. >(2) In extreme time-control situations, after one player pushes a pawn to the >eighth rank and says "Queen!" and there are no pieces off the board to replace >the eighth rank pawn with: Play continues, with the new pawn taking on the >powers of the queen. That "pawn" might zip clear across the board, or even >checkmate the enemy king in a back-rank mate! What I was reporting was the official rules. If, in a blitz game, the opponent makes an illegal move and you notice it, the game ends right away, after you reported the fact (that is why, normally, a king is not CAPTURED in blitz, leaving it "en prise" being an ILLEGAL move -- though I admit it is captured often in practice. If you do not notice an illegal move was played, then it has no consequences. In 15 years of tournament play, I never saw anyone let a promoted pawn as a pawn and moves it as a queen, though I have often seen players who use a reversed (uside down) rook. Of course, in a regional chessclub, everything is possible! That is NOT the same in normal tournament games. If an illegal move is made, and you report it 40 moves later, the position HAS to be recreated and it is just as if the 40 moves were never played! You restart the game from that position with the player who made the illegal move to play ; he MUST play the same piece he did (rule of the touched piece) unless it has no legal move to make ; it the illegal move was a capture and the piece that did make the capture has no legal move, the player MUST capture the opponent's piece/pawn with another of his piece/pawn, UNLESS there is no legal way of capturing the opponent's piece; if there is no possible legal move for the piece that was played nor of capturing the opponent's piece, it has no consequences. The referree restores the time that was on both clocks at the time the illegal move was made ; if it is not possible, the referree makes an estimation. That is the official rule. Of course, any claim must be done DURING the game and not after the result was reported and officially noted! Serge Desmarais
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