I was following the thread about how due to the rules not
covering every eventuality it was deemed possible to castle
with a promoted Rook.
It reminded me of this.
In Howard Staunton first book on chess in the rules section
he said you may promote a pawn to any piece except another King.
He did not add that the colour of the promoted piece had to be the
same colour as the promoting pawn.
For a joke his enemies (and he had quite a few) started sending him
problems for his magazine.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution below.
1.Pc8=Black Bishop
1.....B anywhere
2.Be5 mate
This lemon was corrected in later editions.
I did even worse than Staunton.
I was teaching my six year old daughter to play chess earlier this year. I got to the bit about pawn promotion and explained that when it got to the other end she could change it for anything except a king. She seemed very excited at this. A little later when we played a practice game I allowed her to get one of her pawns to the 8th rank. She rushed over to her toy box, dug out her favourite black plastic spider and substituted that for the newly promoted pawn.
Originally posted by Fat LadyI'm predicting a new chess varient in your house.
I did even worse than Staunton.
I was teaching my six year old daughter to play chess earlier this year. I got to the bit about pawn promotion and explained that when it got to the other end she could change it for anything except a king. She seemed very excited at this. A little later when we played a practice game I allowed her to get one of her pawns ...[text shortened]... ox, dug out her favourite black plastic spider and substituted that for the newly promoted pawn.
My 6yo never gets out of the middle game with me.😀 Sounds like yours can develope a better plan than mine. I think its because I take her out of book around move 11 or so then snipe her!
Originally posted by Fat LadyI take it she had the Black pieces.
I did even worse than Staunton.
I was teaching my six year old daughter to play chess earlier this year. I got to the bit about pawn promotion and explained that when it got to the other end she could change it for anything except a king. She seemed very excited at this. A little later when we played a practice game I allowed her to get one of her pawns ...[text shortened]... ox, dug out her favourite black plastic spider and substituted that for the newly promoted pawn.
Does she have a favourite White Spider?
You should have promoted one of your pawns to a boot and
stamped all over her spider.
I was in a junk shop a few weeks back and bought for 10p one of
these huge black beetles. A real nasty looking thing.
I was going to going to hide it under the bed but later that day
I was at ASDA and decided to hide the thing under a few bunches
of bananas at the fruit stall.
(it's little things like this that help get me though the day).
Originally posted by Fat Ladylol that's cute.
I did even worse than Staunton.
I was teaching my six year old daughter to play chess earlier this year. I got to the bit about pawn promotion and explained that when it got to the other end she could change it for anything except a king. She seemed very excited at this. A little later when we played a practice game I allowed her to get one of her pawns ...[text shortened]... ox, dug out her favourite black plastic spider and substituted that for the newly promoted pawn.
Originally posted by Fat LadyLOL!!! This is one of the few times that I use the expression literally.
I did even worse than Staunton.
I was teaching my six year old daughter to play chess earlier this year. I got to the bit about pawn promotion and explained that when it got to the other end she could change it for anything except a king. She seemed very excited at this. A little later when we played a practice game I allowed her to get one of her pawns ...[text shortened]... ox, dug out her favourite black plastic spider and substituted that for the newly promoted pawn.