Touch Move Clarification.
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Touch Move Clarification.
What's the ruling regarding you are about to promote and grab a queen from the side of the board? Are you then committed to promoting or does touch move not apply here?
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Re: Touch Move Clarification.
Touch move applies to pieces on the board, not off it. You can even stop the clock, request the arbiter bring you a queen, pick it up and then decide to have a knight instead.
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Re: Touch Move Clarification.
ok thanks, that's what I thought. So as long as the pawn hasn't been touched, then touch/move doesn't apply?
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Re: Touch Move Clarification.
If you have touched the pawn, then you must move it if possible, including to a promotion square if it is one rank away.MJMcCready wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 2:21 pmok thanks, that's what I thought. So as long as the pawn hasn't been touched, then touch/move doesn't apply?
If you touch the promotion square with a Q, R, B or N, then you are committed to promoting to that piece. The two parts of a promotion move may be carried out in either order.