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Yeah.
As an aside, I haven't quite gotten used to the meta-game strategy in anarchy chess, but I felt pretty good about the Mario Kart rainbow road bits.
it's "en peasant"
That pawn talks a good game, but let's see if he changes his tune the moment he reaches the 8th rank and is promoted to queen.
Pawns can be promoted to any piece.
I don't know the exact wording of the rule, so it might be interesting to find loopholes in, but then pawns can't take their own queen either so we're not necessarily following the rules.
The pawn might decide to stay a pawn and retire.
Can you promote a pawn to a pawn going in the opposite direction, a lateral promotion?
Pawns don't have a choice about their promotion, though, because they're pawns.
Maybe I should have said "White decides that the pawn retires rather than being promoted to anything."
They tried to take their own queen. They're probably going to try something else equally wacky.
Heck, maybe the (player decides that the) pawn stays on the back rank figuratively smashing its head into the wall until a black piece is forced to take it. An interesting, if otherwise illegal, way to gain tempo.
Maybe the (player decides that the) pawn promotes to "10 square radius regicide". The rules are gone. Anything is possible. The people are free of both kings! Vive la révolution!
The pawn might decide to stay a pawn and retire
I think there was a recent post on anarchychess about precisely this.
This is a legal move, it's called a forfeit you knock over your own king and you lose, you don't normally need the pawn but if you're forfeiting anyway I don't think it matters.
- They knocked over the queen, not the king
- The black king is in check, so it must be black's turn or the game is already over due to off-screen pieces
- In the final panels you can see the lady who said the move was invalid was playing white
Thr guy was playing black and moved white's pieces because he already lost, justifying his move as an "overthrow of tyranny".