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:: Having a pawn on the eigth rank is <u>not</u> impossible. Normally, when a pawn reaches the eighth rank, it can be promoted. However, promotion is not ''required'', and if left unpromoted, it remains a (dead) pawn. I don't know of any normal (timed) game that a pawn has been left unprompted, but this has happened when playing speed (blitz) chess. Once you "hit the clock", that pawn is forever a pawn. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:25, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
::: I think the point was: white pawns <u>start</u> on the 2nd rank. There is no legal move in standard chess that can result in them moving "backwards" to the 1st. Conversely, black pawn <u>start</u> on the 7th rank and have no legal move that can result with one on the 8th. However both positions are legal for this task despite them being impossible in actual chess. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 10:01, 27 September 2018 (UTC)
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