Talk:Promotion (chess)
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I think this is complete enough to remove "stub". I can't think of much else to say about it, except that I want to give one simple example of underpromption. Bubba73
Hmm, it should be checked but I heard that you could promote to any color, including the opponent. It can be useful to avoid stalemate for exemple. Can someone confirm ?
- It could indeed be useful in rare positions (Raymond Smullyan gives a nice example in his book The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes]]), but it's not legal in standard chess to promote to a piece of the opposite colour. 213.249.135.36 20:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a limit to the number of pawns that can be promoted? If not, perhaps someone could declare that in the article.--24.200.35.253 14:55, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
In some variants of chess (older ones I was once told) the pawn is ransomed rather than promoted is it not? Meaning that the pawn is in fact limited to pieces that have been captured.
- This was indeed the case in the original rules for chess. Additionally, pawns could only be ransomed for the piece that started on the square where it landed. - Kuzain 07:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
