What's the point of ever promoting a pawn into a rook or a bishop when it can be a queen?
When I play chess over the internet and one of my pawns reaches the other side then a little box pops up for me to choose what piece I want my pawn to become. As well as a knight and a queen then there is mysteriously also a rook and a bishop
2007-03-17 13:51:54 · 13 answers · asked by DarthTim23 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Board Games
This is an excellent question, and it took me a while to look up the answer.
In short, you would avoid promoting to a queen if it causes a stalemale. Better examples can be found in the source below
2007-03-17 19:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by MSDTT 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The reason for the pawn upgrade rule is that chess games can become a war of attrition. Good players can often devastate each others pieces, leaving the king, a few pawns, and MAYBE a knight or bishop. Instead of forcing the players to pull off nearly impossible check mates with those pieces, the rules allow you to upgrade a pawn into any piece in the game if you can get it all the way to the other side of the board.
A lot of people choose to upgrade to rooks instead of queens because it is much easier to get a stalemate with a queen and a king than a rook and a king. Granted, the checkmate is harder, but not that hard for an experienced player.
Technically, you could have 8 upgraded pawns, but that is never realistically going to happen.
2007-03-17 14:54:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you should only have one queen at any time so the rooks and bishops are the next step after you`ve bumped up a pawn to a queen . the table top game deals with this problem as you only have one of each peice so you cant duplicate two queens two kings or four knights or rooks
2007-03-19 02:06:40 · answer #3 · answered by strange_bike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This procedure is called underpromotion and while rare, is sometimes necessary to continue an attach or prevent stalemate. A knight can check where a queen cannot. A rook can allow a king a move and is still powerful enough to force a mate.
2007-03-18 05:21:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have 8 pawned Queens technically
Also I like to pawn into a rook or bishop just to that I can win without the queen
(and it really annoys the other player!)
2007-03-17 14:24:18 · answer #5 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To seperate the morons from the real players. Also maybe you need a promotion, but promoting to a knight or a queen might produce a stalemate (however, that is an unlikely situation).
2007-03-18 07:06:30 · answer #6 · answered by Nathan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do people insist on answering questions they know nothing about? Answerer no.2 is just plain ignorant - a pawn can become any of the pieces that are mentioned in the question.
ALL of your pawns can theoretically become queens - therefore you could have nine on the board at once!
2007-03-17 14:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Michael Pants 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A rook is a castle ( moves horizontally and vertically ) and a bishop moves diagonally. Surely you might need one of these as well as a queen or a knight some day, or night...................
2007-03-17 14:59:58 · answer #8 · answered by bak2deefuture 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is possible that if you promoted the pawn to a queen, you would be in a stalemate situation, because your opponent, not being in check, would have no legal move.
2007-03-17 14:19:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The point is to turn the lowest ranking piece into the highest ranking piece ,the Queen youre only aloud to turn a pawn into a queen.
2007-03-17 14:02:19 · answer #10 · answered by Sean Collins 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋