Talk:Pawn (chess)

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[edit] old talk

These diagrams need to be standardized. --malathion talk 23:48, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pawn promotion

6.6.4 PAWN promotion: On reaching the last rank, a pawn must be immediately exchanged, as part of the same move, for a queen, a rook, a bishop, or a knight of the same color as the pawn, at the player's choice and without taking into account the other pieces still remaining on the chessboard. This exchanging of a pawn is called 'promotion' and the action of the promoted piece is immediate.

"A queen, a rook, a bishop, or a knight". Not a king! -- Curps 11:30, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Use of animated images

I believe that the article, in fact all articles, are better off without animated images. In chess articles, there is no need for them, since a diagram with arrows can illustrate moves quite well. Wikipedia doesn't need distractions like this. --Yath 21:40, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

In matter of fact, I strongly believe in the use of animated ilustration in an electronic Encyclopedia like this one, and your point about being distracted by this kind of image it's a sort of POV, in fact no one else made an observation like this one before. Jfreyre

I've often thought there very much should be animations on the chess articles, but on the other hand I think it would be more useful if there were a way for the reader to control them, and I don't think this is really feasible. For now it's probably best to leave things as is. --Jammoe 22:10, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

on many browsers you can press escape to stop all animated gifs Skullers (talk) 08:12, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pawn movement.

"Pawns may not use the initial two-square advance to jump over an occupied square, but it can be used to capture." What?!? I've never, ever, ever, ever heard this, or seen it. Pawns capturing straight ahead? Clarify? Fix it? What? --Jammoe 22:12, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

That was added on March 9, 2007 by somewho made only that edit. It was either vandalism or another case of people thinking they know something editing the article. It is one of the "benefits" of the "anyone can edit" policy. I'll fix it. 02:47, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Promote to pawn.

may be i'm wrong but I heard that you can claim for a pawn when it reaches the 8th rank...so the pawn gets back to the original square..for example if you promote in d8 it gets back to d2, this would be illegal if d2 it's occupied.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.19.89.23 (talk) 20:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

No such thing. The actual rule is quoted under #Pawn promotion above. -- Jao (talk) 21:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Also see promotion (chess) and Rules of chess#Movement, the part about Pawns. Bubba73 (talk), 03:06, 4 March 2008 (UTC)