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Promote to BISHOP

Promote to BISHOP

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Is it possible to have 2 BISHOPS on the same color

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I have never seen people promote to bishop, but it is possible.

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There are 14 examples here:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1022234

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Final position Game 13023853 Arayn - etecka RHP 2018
Black has just played 80...Be3-d4 mate.

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@greenpawn34

This one of mine is similar
Game 13421077
I remember that most of the latter moves in this game were made whilst I was travelling on the M62 motorway. Hurrah for mobile data!

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do the rules of chess allow promoting to a Bishop, if you already have a Bishop of that color?

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@ogb said
do the rules of chess allow promoting to a Bishop, if you already have a Bishop of that color?
Hmm. I should think, with a rating of 2265, that you'd already know the answer to that. 🙄

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@ogb said
do the rules of chess allow promoting to a Bishop, if you already have a Bishop of that color?
No, chess sets only have one white lightsquared bishop so if you tried to promote a pawn to one and you already had one in play, you wouldn't have one to put on the board.

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@knightstalker47 said
No, chess sets only have one white lightsquared bishop so if you tried to promote a pawn to one and you already had one in play, you wouldn't have one to put on the board.
When you're setting up the pieces how do you know which is the white light squared bishop and which the dark squared one?

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@deepthought said
When you're setting up the pieces how do you know which is the white light squared bishop and which the dark squared one?
I like to draw a black spot on my white-dark-squared-bishop and a white spot on my black-light-squared-bishop. 😀

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@ogb said
do the rules of chess allow promoting to a Bishop, if you already have a Bishop of that color?
well Im not sure about the official rules.. but it is a serious question getting a bunch of farcical answers

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@deepthought said
When you're setting up the pieces how do you know which is the white light squared bishop and which the dark squared one?
The one with the slit on the left is the dark square one and the light squared one has the slit on the right.

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if the rules allowed it would be interesting if a pawn could be promoted to another king

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OK since everyone else was too lazy....I looked up the "Official" rules of chess. A pawn may be promoted to any piece (except a pawn., and yes I know a pawn is not a piece). Also, it must be of the same color that you are using. In other words, if you have the Black pieces in a game, you can't promote to a white piece.

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@ogb said
OK since everyone else was too lazy....I looked up the "Official" rules of chess. A pawn may be promoted to any piece (except a pawn., and yes I know a pawn is not a piece). Also, it must be of the same color that you are using. In other words, if you have the Black pieces in a game, you can't promote to a white piece.
Reminds me of the time during an elementary school tournament my daughter captured her own pawn on the 7th rank with a knight forking the other player's king and queen.