In the 1700’s, it was ruled that a Pawn could only be promoted to a piece that had already been captured (essentially putting a fallen piece piece back on the board in the Pawn’s place). In the late 1400’s, when the Queen became a much more powerful piece, players were given the option of promoting their Pawns to any other piece. It wasn’t until the middle ages that it was decided to allow Pawns to be promoted to other pieces if they made it all the way across the board, but they could only turn into a Queen (which, at that time, was the weakest piece in the game). Originally, Pawns did not promote when they reached the 8th rank, there merely could not move any more during the game. When it became apparent that a player could use this rule to avoid capture (by moving the Pawn 2 spaces instead of 1 space in which it might get captured by a Pawn on the 5th rank), the rule for En Passant was added. One of the things done to accomplish this was to allow the Pawn the option of moving up to 2 spaces on it’s first turn and therefore adding variety to the game (would the pawn move just one space or 2) and new strategies. Around the 1500’s, it was decided that the game of chess needed to be sped up and made more exciting. Originally, Pawns could only move forward one space at a time on every turn.
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Some of these changes include how various pieces move, the appearance of the chess board, and how to win a chess game.
This is a great question on the history of chess, and so rather than writing a mini-blog to answer that question alone, I thought I’d go over several rules of chess that have changed over the centuries. Josh from New Jersey asked me “Why is it that Pawns are allowed to move 2 spaces in the beginning?”
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