Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To David Paulowich wrote on Sat, Sep 8, 2001 12:00 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★This is David Paulowich writing in support of the standard rules for pawn promotion, which seem to be unpopular with some players and chess variant designers. If, for example, pawns could only be promoted to previously captured pieces, then many beautiful games would no longer be legal. My databases contain over 400 games with 4 Queens on the board, 2 White and 2 Black, including: Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927 (Thirteenth World Chess Championship Match, game 11) and Borsony - Koch, 1956 (Second World Correspondence Chess Championship). In 1936 Reinle checkmated Lange in this 'extra promotion' game: 1. e4 e5 2. f4 f5 3. exf5 e4 4. Qh5+ g6 5. fxg6 h6 6. g7+ Ke7 7. Qe5+ Kf7 8. gxh8=N# Such games, with one player having nine pieces other than pawns, used to be rare (only ten were played between 1856 and 1963). In modern times the opening: 1. b4 e5 2. Bb2 Bxb4 3. f4 exf4 4. Bxg7 Qh4+ 5. g3 fxg3 6. Bg2 gxh2+ 7. Kf1 hxg1=Q+ 8. Kxg1 (from Kucharkowski - Walter, 1982) has been repeated in over 200 games. Incidentally, White is winning, by about 150 to 50. Edit Form Comment on the page ChessName or UserID: Password: if signing in with UserIDRating: None Poor Good Excellent Comment or question: Format: HTMLMarkdownTextWYSIWYG Conduct Guidelines This is a Chess variants website, not a general forum. Please limit your comments to Chess variants or the operation of this site. Keep this website a safe space for Chess variant hobbyists of all stripes. Because we want people to feel comfortable here no matter what their political or religious beliefs might be, we ask you to avoid discussing politics, religion, or other controversial subjects here. No matter how passionately you feel about any of these subjects, just take it someplace else. Avoid Inflammatory Comments If you are feeling anger, keep it to yourself until you calm down. Avoid insulting, blaming, or attacking someone you are angry with. Focus criticisms on ideas rather than people, and understand that criticisms of your ideas are not personal attacks and do not justify an inflammatory response. Quick Markdown Guide By default, new comments may be entered as Markdown, simple markup syntax designed to be readable and not look like markup. Comments stored as Markdown will be converted to HTML by Parsedown before displaying them. This follows the Github Flavored Markdown Spec with support for Markdown Extra. For a good overview of Markdown in general, check out the Markdown Guide. Here is a quick comparison of some commonly used Markdown with the rendered result:# Top level header: `<H1>` > Block quote > > Second paragraph in block quote First Paragraph of response. *Italics*, **bold**, and ***bold italics***. Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some <U>HTML code</U> mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same `<U>HTML code</U>` enclosed by backticks. ## Secondary Header: `<H2>` * Unordered list item * Second unordered list item + New unordered list * Nested list item - An URL by itself: + https://www.chessvariants.com - A text link: - [The Chess Variant Pages](https://www.chessvariants.com) ### Third Level header `<H3>` 1. An ordered list item. 1. A second ordered list item with the same number. 2. A third ordered list item. ~~~ Here is some preformatted text. This line begins with some indentation. This begins with even more indentation. And this line has no indentation. ~~~  A definition list : A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it. : An HTML construct using the tags `<DL>`, `<DT>` and `<DD>`. A term : Its definition after a colon. : A second definition. : A third definition. Another term following a blank line : The definition of that term.Top level header: <H1> Block quote Second paragraph in block quote First Paragraph of response. Italics, bold, and bold italics. Second Paragraph after blank line. Here is some HTML code mixed in with the Markdown, and here is the same <U>HTML code</U> enclosed by backticks. Secondary Header: <H2> Unordered list item Second unordered list item New unordered list Nested list item An URL by itself: https://www.chessvariants.com A text link: The Chess Variant Pages Third Level header <H3> An ordered list item. A second ordered list item with the same number. A third ordered list item. Here is some preformatted text. This line begins with some indentation. This begins with even more indentation. And this line has no indentation. A definition list A list of terms, each with one or more definitions following it. An HTML construct using the tags <DL>, <DT> and <DD>. A term Its definition after a colon. A second definition. A third definition. Another term following a blank line The definition of that term.