translation of 2 chess references
Paul B. Gallagher
paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Wed Jul 30 23:09:52 UTC 2008
Krystyna and Nory Steiger wrote:
Sorry, can't address your first question except to say that a pawn that
reaches the opposite end of the board may be replaced with any piece of
the owner's choice (except of course a king; there can only be one
king). Under normal circumstances, the queen being the most powerful
piece, the player chooses a queen. But very rarely, if his position
would be aided more by a different choice, such as a knight, he's
entitled to make that choice.
It generally wouldn't make sense to sell it short for a bishop or rook
because neither of these offers anything that the queen does not also
offer. However, I could construct a position where queening a pawn would
create a stalemate but choosing a rook or bishop would not, and a player
with such an overwhelming advantage would not want to settle for a draw.
> A little later, Fonderviakin shows Dushkin to be a cheat, not at
> chess, though he uses an example from chess to expose him to the
> tenants: "То-то я гляжу, товарищи, что у него давеча пешка с b4
> сразу перепрыгнула на b6!" In other words: "Aha, Comrades, I can see
> his pawn's just jumped from b4 right over to b6!" ? Shaky
> translations, but am I on the right track?
A pawn is allowed to advance two rows on its first move (a White pawn
from row 2 to 4, a Black pawn from row 7 to 5), but under all other
circumstances it can never advance more than one row at a time. So the
move described would be illegal, and a player who attempted it would
either be cheating or making a mistake.
I probably would avoid the word "over" because it often denotes a
horizontal (L/R) movement; I would prefer "all the way."
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com
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