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10 Sep '19 21:34

Archer0212
Patzer
King William's Town
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10 Sep '19 21:34
I lost a game today, because a pawn was automatically promoted to Queen, when the winning piece was a Knight. How does one choose which piece you want?
Ragwort
Senecio Jacobaea
Yorkshire
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11 Sep '19 07:44
@Archer0212

This is the game I presume?

EVENT Challenge
SITE https://www.dailychess.com
DATE 2019.09.07
ROUND ?
WHITE Archer0212
BLACK joeboy69
RESULT 0-1
WHITEELO 1480
BLACKELO 1541
Invert Board PGN Headers
[Event "Challenge"]
[Site "https://www.dailychess.com"]
[Date "2019.09.07"]
[EndDate "2019.09.10"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Archer0212"]
[Black "joeboy69"]
[WhiteRating "1480"]
[BlackRating "1541"]
[WhiteElo "1480"]
[BlackElo "1541"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameId "13407988"]

1. e4 e5 2. Ng1f3 Nb8c6 3. Bf1b5 a6 4. Bb5xc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bc8g4 6. Nb1d2 Bf8c5 7. O-O Qd8d7 8. Nf3xe5 Bg4xd1 9. Ne5xd7 Ke8xd7 10. Rf1xd1 Ra8e8 11. d4 Bc5b6 12. c3 Ng8f6 13. e5 Nf6d5 14. Nd2c4 Kd7c8 15. Nc4xb6 Nd5xb6 16. Bc1f4 h6 17. Rd1e1 g5 18. Bf4e3 g4 19. Be3f4 h5 20. b3 Nb6d5 21. Bf4d2 Re8e6 22. c4 Nd5b6 23. Ra1d1 Rh8e8 24. Bd2f4 f6 25. d5 cxd5 26. cxd5 Re6e7 27. e6 Kc8b8 28. d6 Re7xe6 29. dxc7 Kb8a7 30. Re1xe6 Re8xe6 31. Bf4e3 Re6c6 32. Rd1d6 Rc6xd6 33. c8=Q Rd6d1 0-1

When you place the pawn on the promotion square a drop down menu appears for you to select the promoted piece. Then you can submit move. Exactly how that happens depends if you are on an app or the main website. I've thought that its a little awkward to find when viewing the main site on a mobile browser being in the square under the game board where the offer draw and resign buttons are which you need to scroll down to see.
ketchuplover
Isolated Pawn
Wisconsin USA
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11 Sep '19 13:08
Some site(s) allow you to pre-select which piece to promote to
greenpawn34
e4
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11 Sep '19 15:542 edits
You do get a choice, but if the lad is using an APP - something
I do not have , then it could be an easy mistake to make.

I'll keep this one out of the RPH 'Hall of Doom' but future bloggers may stumble across it.
Maybe I'll blog a warning about it, as it appears to be a software glich.

It's not quite as bad as platoic - themban RHP 2011
which I gave an RHP stamp too: Blog Post 308

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 g5 {Not the best move I've seen on RHP. White's reply is the perfect answer.} 4. d4 Qf6 {Bringing your Queen out before should only be done if it absolutely necessary. The threat to the White d-pawn is an illusion, the Queen is just a target.} 5. Bxg5 Qg6 6. O-O Qxe4 {Asking for trouble.} 7. Nxe5 Nxe5 8. Re1 Qf5 {Well that is the Black Queen gone. All part of Plan Nine. The plan being to fill White so full of over confidence they will/might make a mistake.} 9. Rxe5+ Qxe5 10. dxe5 d6 11. Qf3 {White's Queen joins in with an immediate threat. Mate on f7.} 11... Be6 12. Bxe6 fxe6 13. Bf6 Nxf6 14. Qxf6 Rg8 15. Qxe6+ Kd8 16. Qxg8 {Black is taking Plan Nine a bit too far. I wonder how much more material they are willing to give up.} 16... Kd7 17. e6+ Kc6 18. e7 Re8 {19.Qc4+ and 20.exf8. on c4 the Queen can drop back to f1.} 19. exf8=Q {Plan Nine. It never fails.} 19... Re1 {That's checkmate.}
mwmiller
RHP Member No.16
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11 Sep '19 16:33
@archer0212 said
I lost a game today, because a pawn was automatically promoted to Queen, when the winning piece was a Knight. How does one choose which piece you want?
It's easy to miss, but if you're on a computer, here's how to see what it looks like.
1. Go to one of your games where it is your move.
2. Make an illegal pawn move to the 8th rank with any one of your pawns.
3. Watch for a new little window to open under the 'submit move' button.
You will see in the window that you can use the default option to promote to a queen, or you can change it to another choice before you submit your move.

It would be nice to make this little window more noticable, but it is there.
I did just test it on an iphone and it works great! A big window pops up over the board and you are required to make a selection at that time. It's a nice big 'in your face' window and it would be nice if the computer mode did it that way too!
Ragwort
Senecio Jacobaea
Yorkshire
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11 Sep '19 19:05
@mwmiller

Yes it's fine on the android app with a nice big selection pop up but the main site on my chrome mobile browser you have to scroll.

EVENT	Challenge
SITE	https://www.dailychess.com
DATE	2019.09.07
ROUND	?
WHITE	Archer0212
BLACK	joeboy69
RESULT	0-1
WHITEELO	1480
BLACKELO	1541

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