Originally posted by ToeHi
When playing in a real across-the-board tourney, when you promote a pawn to a second queen, how is this represented on the board? Do tourney chess sets have extra pieces or does everyone just remember that the pawn is now a queen?
In real over-the-board tournaments extra queens are supplied for players. Personally, in my games agains friends, when the pawn is promoted we both just remember that it is now a queen, or alternatively if there is rook of the board (captured before), I just place it upside down, and now it represents a queen🙂
Yes, many tournament sets come with the extra queen. I've also heard that it is common is to use an up-side-down rook to represent the second queen.
I think in the past you could only promote the pawn to a captured piece, which make sense, and lots think that rules applies today, which it doesn't, which is okay with me. 🙄
In the tournaments I have played common practice is to take a queen from a game that has already finished. (Probably several games have finished when your game has proceeded to a stage where another queen is needed). The rules also allow a player to stop the while searching for a queen (or whatever piece he/she should want to promote).
Although in casual games one often uses a rook upside-down as a queen, I think (but am not sure 😕) that in "serious" games this is not allowed, but if you place a rook upside-down on the board, you have promoted a rook.
The rule is that any pawn that reaches the opposite side of the board can be promoted to ANY major piece chosen. The piece chosen will depend on the the state of play at the time, i.e. you may chose a knight in order to put the king in check. Theoretically you can end up with 9 Queens although the chance of this happening are astronomical.
I was a member of a chess club some 30 years ago and we used upside down Rooks but I do not know what happens these days. I am going through to my local club in a couple of weeks so I will endevour to find the answer for you.
Cheers, Paul. 🙂
Originally posted by RabellaLOL
In the tournaments I have played common practice is to take a queen from a game that has already finished. (Probably several games have finished when your game has proceeded to a stage where another queen is needed). The rules also allow a player to stop the while searching for a queen (or whatever piece he/she should want to promote).
Although in casual ...[text shortened]... his is not allowed, but if you place a rook upside-down on the board, you have promoted a rook.
A xomplete chess set should consist of (for each colour)
8 Pawns
10 Knights
10 Bishops
10 Rooks
9 Queens
And only 1 King.
But I have never seen a complete chess set 😉
Originally posted by captainchaosU R very right Paul! 🙂
... can be promoted to ANY major piece chosen. The piece chosen will depend on...
I played some time ago a very bad game agaist a friend of mine, we reached (nearly) the following position:
8/1PQ5/k7/2K5/8/8/8/8 w - - 3 60
he played 60. b8=Q and it was a draw 😀 Just the promotion into a knight would have let him win!
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Normally I used an upside down rook, however the set I have at home now has poorly designed rooks which don't stand up upside down 🙁. In this case I'd probably use a regular household object to represent the second Queen (or 3rd Knight or whatever - although I've never seen a game where an underpromotion to Rook or Bishop is forced)