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If you have a pawn stacked on another piece, and you use the other piece's move to get to the back row, does the pawn promote, or do you have to have the pawn s
by JoshTriplett 4y ago
If you have a pawn stacked on another piece, and you use the other piece's move to get to the back row, does the pawn promote, or do you have to have the pawn step to the back row on its own power? The former seems like a recipe for exceedingly fast promotion in the mid-to-end game.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIt's been a while but iirc the latter would be the case. The pawn has to do the move itself.
- schoen 4y agoSo you could get a pawn promotion using a queen in three moves (assuming there's an empty space on the rear rank and an open path to reach it!), instead of two. (One to combine the queen and pawn, one to move both pieces to the penultimate rank, and one pawn move to achieve the promotion.)
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y agoIndeed. Or a rook, or a bishop.