From: "Daniel M. Toebbens" <toebbens <at> HMI <dot> DE>
Date: 23 sep 2002
Subject: Re: Another request for rules clarification

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Sylvain Ferrieres wrote:

> One more question: is there a memory of being in promotion area ? I mean:
> if a silver comes to the 7th file and not be promoted and then move away
> from the promotion area, still without promotion, when he moves, for
> example, to the 5th file, can he be promoted then ?

No. You can promote if a move of the piece either starts or ends (or
both of it) inside of the promotion area. So you can i.e. promote a silver
moving from the 7th back to the 6th file. Or i.e. a rook moving from the
promotion area way back to any other file. But there is no memory effect.

Daniel Többens