2006-11-12 07:37:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
If you move a pawn to the opponent's back row, you must immediately "promote" it, making it into a Queen, Rook, Bishop, or Knight. The newly promoted piece's powers take effect immediately, which means that you can even force checkmate or stalemate through promotion. Note that you are NOT limited to pieces you have already lost in choosing what to promote to; it's theoretically possible to have as many as nine Queens (the original plus eight promoted pawns).
2006-11-12 14:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by Chris S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well aside from the king or pawn, u can choose to get any pieces you want, so that means you got eight pawns and you can try to get your self 9 queens!!so far i only made 3queens... and in another game i made 7 rooks. because you may checkmate/ stalemate your opponent with out notice when you got so many queens .
i guess you problem now is.... must the pawn change to any piece that you want (aside from king and pawn) or change to a chess piece that you have lost, well it depends on the game rules. In yahoo, you can change into any piece you want, by the way yahoo chess is a standard chess.
2006-11-14 03:38:12 · answer #2 · answered by diameterrays 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can turn it into any other piece except a pawn or a king. So obviously you want to make it a queen because that is the most powerful piece in all of chess. Therefore it is possible to have more than one queen.
2006-11-12 15:46:21 · answer #3 · answered by The Prince 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When a pawn gets to the other side of the board, it can be exchanged for a dead piece of thier choice.
2006-11-12 23:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They can choose to make it any other piece they want except another King. Usually they make it a queen (you don't have to have already lost your queen). Sometimes it is better to make it a Knight.
2006-11-12 15:47:54 · answer #5 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is promoted to any other piece of the players color except a king or another pawn.
2006-11-12 15:42:38 · answer #6 · answered by jedi master 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the player has the option of what piece they want back ex: the queen lost or rook. whichever they pick.
2006-11-12 15:46:28 · answer #7 · answered by spiritwalker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can sacrafice the pawn for another allready fallin (dead) chess peice such as the queen!!
2006-11-12 15:40:22 · answer #8 · answered by Landon S. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you give them one of their captured peices back or you can allow them to make that pawn anything they want it to be
2006-11-14 10:43:02 · answer #9 · answered by freckle face 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can exchange the Pawn w/ one of your 'dead' or 'eaten' pieces that your oponent has.
2006-11-12 16:34:42 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋