Pawn promotion

Quick query. I hadn't been aware that a pawn could be promoted to another piece other than a Queen. Presumably it is fine to promote pawns to Queens and therefore have two, three .... Queens?

My query is, is there a limit to any piece when promoting pawns?

No ... u can have 10 knights if you want to

yes

You cannot promote to a king or a pawn, for obvious reasons. Otherwise, the choice is yours.

However:

Up until 1903 a pawn, upon reaching the 8th rank, may remain a pawn. A related law stated that promotion could only be a piece that had been captured. If no piece had been captured, the pawn remained a pawn until a capture was made. Steinitz was the leading advocate of this dummy pawn law.

Has anyone ever seen a pre-1903 master game in which a pawn reached the eighth rank and remained a pawn?

Why on earth would u wanna promote to a pawn ... u can't go anywhere thereafter?

And why on earth would u wanna promote to a king?!

Originally posted by Oddjob291

And why on earth would u wanna promote to a king?!

could be fun having to force 2 checkmates to win a game.

promote to a pawn to force a stalemate! Promote to a king to force to checkmates!

I'll look again, but have seen such a case... I believe it was intended in order to get a stalemate, but not sure...
I will get back in no time...

Promoting to a pawn, I mean...

Originally posted by hSilva
I'll look again, but have seen such a case... I believe it was intended in order to get a stalemate, but not sure...
I will get back in no time...

Promoting to a pawn, I mean...

Cheers