From: "J. A. Lipscomb" <ewwa <at> CHATTANOOGA <dot> NET>
Date: 17 dec 1999
Subject: Re: Chu shogi promotion rule, and B27 and C11

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

>     Nick> If I might explain myself, the rule as demonstrated, is not
>     Nick> to my mind the natural interpretation of the rule as stated
>     Nick> in MSM. Whatever your opinion on that, the MSM wording is
>
> My opinion is the same as yours. Indeed, in a letter to George Hodges,
> just over 3 years ago, I said:
>
> "Now despite all this, I still find the natural interpretation of Rule 3. to be my
> original interpretation. It may be that some other people will also so
> interpret it. Therefore I propose the following reading:
>
> `Should a piece not be promoted, it cannot do so on its next move, unless it makes
> a capture.'"

Would this mean that a pawn or lance which moves to the 11th rank
without promoting cannot move on its owner's next turn (since that move
would bring it to the 12th and force it to promote) if nothing is in
front of it?  Or is forced nowhere-to-go promotion an exception?