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On Designing Good Chess Variants. Design goals and design principles for creating Chess variants.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Kevin Pacey wrote on Wed, Sep 19, 2018 01:12 AM UTC:

To complete my examples of justifiable underpromotions in Seirawan Chess, here's a diagram where the move 1.Pf7-f8=A+ is the only way to win, underpromoting to an Archbishop. Note that if Black's king were initially on a8 (for example) then underpromoting to a Chancellor would be the only way to win.