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Autopromote

#1

Only the silver seems to have a reason to ever avoid promotion, can we have an autopromote option for all other pieces?
Or perhaps use the chess way where holding ctrl causes the dialogue to reappear

#2

>Only the silver seems to have a reason to ever avoid promotion
you can come back and revisit this statement when you hit 1700

#3

> you can come back and revisit this statement when you hit 1700

Genuine question, why? What situation might happen where a high ELO player might not promote?

How common is non promotion?

#4

(I'm not saying auto promote is a good idea, just curious about where it, realistically, might not be the optimal play.)

#6

during tsume sequences, sometimes you have to not promote the lance/knight in order to continue keeping the opponent's king in check. if autopromote happened the pressure is taken off and the opponent now has the chance to tsume you into a mate

#7

The unhelpfulness here is remarkable.

Bishops,rooks and lances on the 7th rank should automatically promote as its a pure movement gain.

#8

Lances on the 7th rank do NOT have a pure movement gain (unless you were actually referring to the 8th rank). But even then, there could be niche circumstances where you must underpromote, say, in order to avoid mate by dropped pawn. Here is an example of a tsume i created. If you went and promoted the rook at 5-1, the only way to mate would be with a dropped pawn which is illegal, hence the underpromition

lishogi.org/analysis/standard/5k3/3G5/7L1/4R2S1/3NN4/b8/9/9/9_b_Pr2b3g3s3n4l17p_1

#10

no sense stressing on this :]

for those of certain levels of understanding, promoting straight away (for the most part) is all that is needed

when more pathways of understanding is opened, the need for specialised tools becomes necessary

if this doesn't sound helpful to you, please keep in mind that wisdom takes time, and progress shouldn't be rushed
take steps at your pace, things will make sense soon enough

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