pedestrian: promotion in Crossdress Chess is nothing special really ... look at the sequence of events ...

1. You move your rook (for example) to the 8th rank, aand it changes to pawn by random chance ... do you agree ?

2. Now, having pawn on the 8th rank, what is the next step according to chess rules ? You choose your own piece that your pawn promoted to ... are we on the same page  ?

3. You choose , let's say a Bishop, putting it in place of pawn, and Lady Luck changes it for a Queen (for example)...

Your suggestion about crossdressing every pieces as usual on the 8th rank make some sense, but this really adds nothing to the original rules ... we can make even a rule , that on the 8th rank WE, not the Lady Luck determine our dress ... and this modification adds some skill factor ... but do we need this ? Do we need to modify dice chess saying that the second 6 in the row allows the player to make his own choice of move ?

Anyway, thanks for your suggestions,

Andy.

pauloaguia: Hi, I am so happy  it confuses you ... it was my goal I stated very clearly ... LET'S HAVE FUN THIS SUMMER ... let's experience something crazy, mysterious, unexpected ... but you are right, this game is in some respect like a quantum theory where you cannot predict anything but probability of any event to happen ... and we live in this kind of world ... in the morning we may get happily married, and in the evening we may end up in the funeral home ... however, what can you expect by moving a pawn ? most of the time ONLY something better, right ? So why to cry about it ? you HOPE for the better and this is what our life is all about ... and promotion is kept in the rules to give you and me some feeling of free will ...

pauloaguia, I thank you very much for your opinion and you are right, that only by testing this game we can fully understand it ... hope Fencer we implement it for us.

Cheers, Andy ...