<HTML>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<!-- Created on July, 7 2004 by texi2html 1.64 -->
+<!--
+Written by: Lionel Cons <Lionel.Cons@cern.ch> (original author)
+ Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
+ Olaf Bachmann <obachman@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
+ and many others.
+Maintained by: Olaf Bachmann <obachman@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
+Send bugs and suggestions to <texi2html@mathematik.uni-kl.de>
+
+-->
<HEAD>
-<!-- Created by texi2html 1.57 from gnushogi.texinfo on June 29, 1999 -->
+<TITLE>GNU Shogi manual: Promotion of pieces</TITLE>
+
+<META NAME="description" CONTENT="GNU Shogi manual: Promotion of pieces">
+<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="GNU Shogi manual: Promotion of pieces">
+<META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document">
+<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global">
+<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="texi2html 1.64">
-<TITLE>GNU Shogi manual - Winning the game</TITLE>
</HEAD>
-<BODY >
- [<A HREF="gnushogi_toc.html">Contents</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html">Back</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html">Prev</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_4.html">Up</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html">Next</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html">Forward</A>]  <BR><HR><BR>
+<BODY LANG="" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000">
+
+<A NAME="SEC9"></A>
+<TABLE CELLPADDING=1 CELLSPACING=1 BORDER=0>
+<TR><TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8"> < </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html#SEC10"> > </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_5.html#SEC5"> << </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_6.html#SEC6"> Up </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_15.html#SEC15"> >> </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi.html#SEC_Top">Top</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_toc.html#SEC_Contents">Contents</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_24.html#SEC24">Index</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_abt.html#SEC_About"> ? </A>]</TD>
+</TR></TABLE>
+<HR SIZE=1>
+<H3> 2.1.3 Promotion of pieces </H3>
+<!--docid::SEC9::-->
+<P>
+
+In sharp contrast to international chess, where only pawns can promote
+to higher-ranked pieces, most of the pieces in shogi can promote. The
+promoted ranks are discussed in the section on piece moves (see section <A HREF="gnushogi_7.html#SEC7">2.1.1 The moves of the pieces</A>) but are repeated here for reference:
+</P><P>
+
+<DL COMPACT>
+
+<DT>Pawn
+<DD>promotes to gold general (called a `tokin' in this case only).
+<P>
+
+<DT>Lance
+<DD>promotes to gold general.
+<P>
+
+<DT>Knight
+<DD>promotes to gold general.
+<P>
-<H3><A NAME="SEC12">Winning the game</A></H3>
+<DT>Silver general
+<DD>promotes to gold general.
<P>
-<A NAME="IDX9"></A>
+<DT>Gold general
+<DD>does not promote.
+<P>
+
+<DT>Bishop
+<DD>promotes to "dragon horse" or just "horse" for short. The horse can
+move as a bishop or can move one square in any orthogonal direction.
+<P>
+<DT>Rook
+<DD>promotes to "dragon king" or just "dragon" for short. The dragon
+can move as a rook or can move one square in any diagonal direction.
<P>
-A game of shogi is won by capturing the opponent's king. In general,
-this is done by checkmating the king: attacking the king in such a way
-that the king cannot be defended no matter what the defending player
-moves. Note, though, that there is no rule that requires a player to
-defend a king which is being attacked. However, if he does not defend
-his king, the opponent is entirely free to capture it on the next move,
-thus winning the game. As in international chess, in practice most
-games end by resignation when one player realizes that he cannot escape
-checkmate.
+<DT>King
+<DD>does not promote.
+<P>
+
+</DL>
+<P>
+
+The three ranks furthest away from each player constitute his/her
+"promotion zone". A player may, but is not required to, promote a
+piece after making a move in which the piece begins and/or ends in the
+promotion zone. Thus you can promote a piece when moving the piece into
+the promotion zone, out of the promotion zone, or entirely within the
+promotion zone. Promotion is mandatory in these cases:
+</P><P>
+
+<OL>
+
+<LI>You must promote a pawn or a lance after moving it to the last rank.
+<P>
+
+<LI>You must promote a knight after moving it to either of the last
+two ranks.
+<P>
+
+</OL>
+<P>
+
+These forced promotions ensure that a piece cannot be moved to a square
+from which it would have no further move.
+</P><P>
+
+Pieces "dropped" onto the board (see section <A HREF="gnushogi_10.html#SEC10">2.1.4 Drops</A>) always drop in the
+unpromoted state, even if they drop into the promotion zone.
+</P><P>
-<P></P><HR>
- [<A HREF="gnushogi_toc.html">Contents</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html">Back</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html">Prev</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_4.html">Up</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html">Next</A>]   [<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html">Forward</A>]  
+<A NAME="Drops"></A>
+<HR SIZE=1>
+<TABLE CELLPADDING=1 CELLSPACING=1 BORDER=0>
+<TR><TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8"> < </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_10.html#SEC10"> > </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_5.html#SEC5"> << </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_6.html#SEC6"> Up </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_15.html#SEC15"> >> </A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT"> <TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi.html#SEC_Top">Top</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_toc.html#SEC_Contents">Contents</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_24.html#SEC24">Index</A>]</TD>
+<TD VALIGN="MIDDLE" ALIGN="LEFT">[<A HREF="gnushogi_abt.html#SEC_About"> ? </A>]</TD>
+</TR></TABLE>
+<BR>
+<FONT SIZE="-1">
+This document was generated
+by <I>Michael C. Vanier</I> on <I>July, 7 2004</I>
+using <A HREF="http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~obachman/Texi2html
+"><I>texi2html</I></A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
projects / gnushogi.git / blobdiff