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Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugNah, it would be good to have a tournament set with two Queens available in sanctioned tournaments, or pause your clock, and go ask one of the players who has finished their game (or the arbiter) if they have an extra Queen due to the promoton situation in your game 🙂 I believe I observed the second scenario in one of my USCF tournaments in Orlando, FL. You must be one of those guys with a huge brain and much knowledge - but absolutely noooo common sense. hehe Don't worry! Not making fun of you. I get the same thing from other people myself. Trust me! hehe Can't have it all, can you?
Im talking about tournamount set ups where you're using their plastic pieces, when you get your pawn to the end, what you do? grab a piece that your oppenent took earlier ansd use that as your new queen? ask your opponent to supply you with a taken piece as your new queen? ask an arbituar(spelling i cant be bothered to figure out right now) keep the pawn piece and just use that as the queen or what!!!!????
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Originally posted by BigDoggProblemThat's rich, you suggest that I am making a snarky comment, I wonder why? could it be that you responsed to me (for no reason as I was not unpleasant by any stretch of the immagination to you), nastily with...."Please try to follow along with the discussion" However I will follow your suggestion and start another thread re the 'proud to be a non subscriber'
If you wanted to answer her question, why didn't you respond to her instead of responding to me? And why didn't you word it something like, "I checked the rules and they state that you must promote to a piece of your own color"? If I didn't know better, I'd think you were just trying to make a snarky comment in response to my post.
If you want to discuss the sub/non-sub issue, please open a new thread. It's too off-topic for this one.
Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugYou can simply stretch over to where your lost queen has been placed by your opponent, look at him in a questioning manner and he would normally nod or indicate for you to proceed. If he ignores your movement, try a cough or two. ahem! If he still ignores you, just pick it up.
Does anyone want to answer my question about queening in otb games, please! 🙂
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Originally posted by stevetoddno. he said "you cannot win the game anymore"
yes but I think the lead up to this position means that the opponent helped/blundered badly, what he meant was that mate can't be forced
and yet, like biggdog proved, you can win.
in fact, if you have a king and a bishop left on the board, and your opponent has ,say, king and two bishops and he runs out of time, you win the game.
Originally posted by EliGraceandDadMy God.
Crazy thing is I've been playing for close to 30 years now and never knew that rule. Just imagine the other ones I don't know? Seems kinda silly to have more than 1 queen, you ought to be able to win the doggone game with just the 1 you started with! Although playing against some of you guys, I need all the qQueens I can get!
Thanks a bunch, this site rocks by the way
Originally posted by BigDoggProblemI believe the point is that the mate CAN NOT be forced, it's possible only if the opponent blunders into it. The position above could have easily been avoided.
You can if your opponent has certain pieces on the board. For example, [fen]8/8/8/8/8/1K6/2N5/kn6[/fen].
Originally posted by stevetoddIt sounded snarky, because I never claimed promoting to an enemy piece was legal, nor did I ever ask a question about it, because I already knew it was illegal. My reply was hardly a scathing rebuttal, especially in view of your error in responding to the wrong person.
That's rich, you suggest that I am making a snarky comment, I wonder why? could it be that you responsed to me (for no reason as I was not unpleasant by any stretch of the immagination to you), nastily with...."Please try to follow along with the discussion" However I will follow your suggestion and start another thread re the 'proud to be a non subscriber'
Originally posted by DrumboFor claiming a draw, it's irrelevant if mate can be forced. As long as mate is possible, no immediate draw can be claimed.
I believe the point is that the mate CAN NOT be forced, it's possible only if the opponent blunders into it. The position above could have easily been avoided.
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Originally posted by BigDoggProblemLook have it your own way, yes I wrongly replied to the wrong post (capital offence obnvioulsy) so obviously I was not insinuating anything with the illegal move issue, other than coming back to Norleys about it, but carry on being rude to me I really don't care, I have much more important things in life to address.
It sounded snarky, because I never claimed promoting to an enemy piece was legal, nor did I ever ask a question about it, because I already knew it was illegal. My reply was hardly a scathing rebuttal, especially in view of your error in responding to the wrong person.