💡📝H. G. Muller wrote on Sun, Jul 10, 2022 11:01 AM UTC:
I am not sure why you would even bother to limit the number of Bishop promotions to 2 (if the original Bishops are still present). Like anyone would ever want to promote to Bishop... In practice promotions would never occur when there still are enough super-pieces around to prevent them. So even with promotion to captured pieces only there would always be something much better than a Bishop available. It is quite inconceivable that the opponent would have blundered away so many pieces that he can no longer stop promotion, while you would not have lost a single piece better than a Bishop.
So it seems a totally useless rule. Even when you would grant an infinite supply of Bishops, no one would ever want to use one. Let alone 3.
I am not sure why you would even bother to limit the number of Bishop promotions to 2 (if the original Bishops are still present). Like anyone would ever want to promote to Bishop... In practice promotions would never occur when there still are enough super-pieces around to prevent them. So even with promotion to captured pieces only there would always be something much better than a Bishop available. It is quite inconceivable that the opponent would have blundered away so many pieces that he can no longer stop promotion, while you would not have lost a single piece better than a Bishop.
So it seems a totally useless rule. Even when you would grant an infinite supply of Bishops, no one would ever want to use one. Let alone 3.