From: Ivan Tuckwell <Ivan.C.Tuckwell <at> TSY <dot> TREASURY <dot> GOVT <dot> NZ>
Date: 30 jan 1997
Subject: Re: Tori shogi

>Is there any special rules about promotion of dropped pawn.
>Do pawns promote if dropped to the 2 last lines?
>If not when do dropped pawns promote and when not.

>This wasn't mentioned on the tori shogi home pages and the author was
>not sure.

>Do the pices that start at the corers and pieces next to them.(sorry I
>forgot names) promote (i assume they dont)?

The promotion rules for Tori Shogi are the same as for normal shogi. A dropped
piece promotes by making a move that starts or ends in the promotion zone,
which in this case is the last two ranks. You can drop a pawn onto the second
to last rank, but it does not promote until it has moved to the last rank.

The quails do not promote, (in fact on the back of the pieces is the character
for left or right, so you know which side of the board they started on. I
think the only pieces that promote are the falcon and the pawns.

Ivan