We bought a chess set in which the rules state that pawn promotion occurs when the pawn moves to the light square in the upper left corner of the opponent's first row. So, this cannot occur when the pawn reaches any square in the last row? All the other answers to pawn promotion do not address a specific square rule.
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6Possible duplicate of Restrictions around promoting a pawn, where the accepted answer directly responds to this question.– NijCommented Jun 17, 2019 at 19:47
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Pawns promote when they reach any square on the back row. The rulebook you got is either wrong or you are misreading it.
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I can understand why you thought I might have misread the instruction sheet, but I quoted the rules as written. I wonder if this is a rule from some long ago, perhaps original, version of the game. In any event, we prefer to believe the "any back row square" promotion.– KarinCommented Jun 18, 2019 at 21:10
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2Or perhaps the rulebook presents a particular pawn as an illustrative example, and that pawn (barring captures) can promote at only one square. Commented Jun 19, 2019 at 22:10
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@Karin There are many rules in chess which have changed - castling didn't originally exist, pawns couldn't move 2 squares, and the queen was much weaker - but there was never a "pawns only promote in the left corner" rule.– D MCommented Feb 27, 2020 at 12:36