Why does a captured promoted pawn in crazyhouse turn back into a pawn?
ie: lets say an opponent promotes a pawn into a queen, and i capture that promoted queen, it gets added to my reserve as a pawn not a queen. why is that? is this a bug?
Long story short, it is not a bug. Promoted pawns go back to being pawns if captured.
@Tangelo777That link doesn't say anything about the topic at hand, what's your point?
Rules
All the rules and conventions of standard chess apply, with the addition of drops, as explained below.
A captured piece reverses color and goes to the capturing player's reserve or pocket. At any time, instead of making a move with a piece on the board, a player can drop a piece from his reserve onto an empty square on the board.
For example, a check that would result in checkmate in standard chess can be answered in Crazyhouse, if the defender can play a legal drop that blocks the check.
Drops resulting in immediate checkmate are permitted. Unlike in shogi, this includes pawn drops.
Pawns may not be dropped on the players' 1st or 8th ranks.
Promoted but captured pawns are dropped as pawns.