Comment by sobellian
5 hours ago
The historical rules also left ambiguous promotion to the opposite color: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/8291/pawn-promotio.... This rule was clarified later to restrict to the same color.
5 hours ago
The historical rules also left ambiguous promotion to the opposite color: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/8291/pawn-promotio.... This rule was clarified later to restrict to the same color.
> The player’s choice is not restricted to pieces that have been captured previously
I grew up playing chess but my grandfather always insisted that pawns could only be promoted to captured pieces so when I played him we had to play a that variant.
I suspect this came from players not having extra pieces with their chess sets.