Comments on: Special Chess Rules – Pawn Promotion

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:45:23 +0000

@robin: yes, you can promote your pawn and give the enemy king check at the same time. You may not promote your pawn if your own king is in check or if the pawn move results in check to your king. Hope that helps!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:48:16 +0000

thank for the help

By: robin

robin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:19:11 +0000

may you promote your pawn straight into a position of check?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:48:34 +0000

Yes, you can have two Queens. In fact, it is possible (in theory) to have nine Queens, if all eight Pawns were promoted. In practice, the promoted Pawn is replaced by a Queen sitting on the 8th rank where the Pawn was. Some chess sets are sold with two extra Queens to take care of that situation. At a tournament or club, players often go looking around begging for another Queen to replace the Pawn. In a pinch, a Rook turned upside down is used as an extra Queen.

On the score sheet, you indicate the promotion to a Queen like this: g8(Q). That means that a Pawn has moved from g7 to g8 and the player promoted the Pawn to a Queen. If you promote the Pawn to a Knight or Rook, you replace the Pawn with the appropriate piece, and the notation is: g8(N) or g8(R).

Thanks for the comment!

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:28:59 +0000

Great blog, by the way! My question: can a pawn be promoted to a Queen if one is still in play? If so, how is it indicated that the pawn is now a queen? Thanks!