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A pawn can be promoted to a queen, a knight, a rook or a bishop. My question is why would someone want their pawn to be promoted to anything other than a queen? I can understand the knight promotion since their unconventional movement can lead to a sophisticated check mate, but other than that why would anyone promote their pawn to a rook or a bishop, since a queen can be both?

Are there any known occurrences where a player has promoted his/her pawn not to a queen?

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  • Another http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/9354/situations-of-underpromoting-the-pawn/9367#9367 and yet another http://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/730/why-would-one-promote-a-pawn-to-a-knight question on same topic. – GloriaVictis Oct 17 '15 at 13:40
  • Underpromotion is done to prevent stalemate. You promote to a rook / knight / bishop to dodge stalemating your opponent. – AlwaysLearningNewStuff Oct 17 '15 at 14:50

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