Doug Chatham wrote on Sun, Feb 26, 2006 02:53 PM UTC:
In many chess variants (e.g Grand Chess 2) pawn promotion is restricted to pieces captured by the opponent. Why? Why is this restriction so popular among chess variants?
A related question: Has anyone tried turning this particular restriction around, restricting pawn promotion to those piece-types that have not been lost? (i.e., if you lose a Queen, you couldn't get it back through promotion, and if you lost both Knights, you couldn't get them back.)
A related question: Has anyone tried turning this particular restriction around, restricting pawn promotion to those piece-types that have not been lost? (i.e., if you lose a Queen, you couldn't get it back through promotion, and if you lost both Knights, you couldn't get them back.)