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Feeble Chess to Weakest Chess. Some Chess variants with weaker pieces. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
David Howe wrote on Fri, Jul 5, 2002 04:38 PM UTC:
'Pawns reaching their 8th rank are promoted to any non-Royal piece that was
on the board at the start of the game.'

Perhaps the answer is obvious, but I'll ask the question anyways: when a
pawn is promoted, is there any limitation on the orientation of the
promoted piece? I would assume that the promoted piece can be in any
orientation that is legal for that piece (eg. a pawn promoted to a Feeble
Rook could not be oriented at 45 degrees), but the rules aren't explicit.

Requiring the piece to be oriented 'North' would make safe promotion a bit
more difficult, but might be more interesting.