Pawn Promotion, Capture, and Under-promotion
Among the last types of moves to handle were pawn promotions. In SAN, these are expressed in the form rank file = promoted piece
, e.g., e8=Q
is the movement of the e
-file pawn to e8
and subsequent promotion to queen.
The promotion can be also be a capture, e.g., hxg1=Q
, the h
-file pawn captures at g1
and promotes to queen.
Although rare, we support under-promotion, i.e., when the piece is promoted to something other than a queen. e.g., c8=R
.
Commit 22e79b0