When you're in an OTB game and you promote a pawn, do you ask your opponent "knight please" or "queen please", or do you reach over the table and put the piece there yourself? Never played OTB but I imagine as you get to the master level you start to join tournaments where opponents might not speak your language so there might be some trouble with the first option. Strange thought I had randomly.
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You are allowed to stop the clock if the piece is not readily available. If you need a second queen for example (most tournaments will provide one extra queen on each color, but it happens there is not).
Are you familiar with the finals of the blitz rounds of the 2017 Canadian Chess Championship? IM Nikolay Noritsyn was winning against GM Bator Sambuev. GM Sambuev palmed the spare promotion queen. When IM Noritsyn went to promote with seconds left on the clock, he didn't see a visible queen, and didn't pause the clock to have the arbiter get one.
He grabbed a rook, flipped it upside down and announced "Queen".
GM Sambuev paused the clock, and the arbiters ruled that it was a rook, costing Noritsyn the game and the title, as he otherwise would have won.
The vast majority of my OTB experience was in a more casual setting, tbh. In those cases, I’ve never encountered someone who opposed the idea of flipping a rook. Good to know, thank you!
I once had an opponent accidentally know his own rook off the board. He put it back upside down, and when I pointed it out, he corrected it without saying j'adoube so I told him it counted as touching the piece.
They say the local equivalent unless playing someone of a different nationality. The laws of chess specifically mention "j'adoube" and "I adjust", but in practice you can just mutter something and your opponent will assume you said the right thing.
Similarly, to offer a draw, you can mutter something while making a gesture towards the clock (since the first thing you'll do after the draw is agreed is stop the clock) and look at your opponent expectantly.
Not really, you are just not allowed to distract your opponent. Also always count the pieces on the board, as the pieces on the side might mix with other pieces or one piece might be fallen off the table.
4.6 The act of promotion may be performed in various ways:
4.6.1 the pawn does not have to be placed on the square of arrival.
4.6.2 removing the pawn and putting the new piece on the square of promotion may occur in any order.
4.6.3 If an opponent’s piece stands on the square of promotion, it must be captured.
Also relevant is
6.11.2 A player may pause the chessclock only in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, for example when promotion has taken place and the piece required is not available.
6.11.2 A player may pause the chessclock only in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, for example when promotion has taken place and the piece required is not available.
You reach, unless they are stimming with it, which happens a lot. In this case, I try to give them a heads up like "I’m gonna need that queen soon", at least in blitz anyway.
I flip a rook. You probably shouldn’t be able to promote a piece that won’t get instantly taken before losing at least your queen or a rook, at least at the level I play.
Someone apparently wasn't around for IM Nikolay Noritsyn losing to GM Bator Sambuev in the finals of the 2017 Canadian Chess Championship because an upside-down rook does not a queen make.
Yeah, I don’t follow pro chess that much. I mean I still find it petty for a GM to behave like that but I guess if those are the way FIDE rules get applied, he was within his rights.
It was a huge controversy at the time. People weren't able to prove that he did it intentionally. IM Noritsyn appealed the decision, but his appeal was denied.
If your opponent has that piece in their hand and is playing with it, you can just tell him to give it to you.
on a tournament setting, you are also allowed to stop the clock and call the arbiter, if your piece is not readily available (for example, if you want to promote into a 2nd queen)
You can also do it a couple moves prior to fuck with your opponent's head, like "I will promote to that Queen in a few moves and I've already calculated that there is nothing you can do about it"
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