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Questions tagged [pawn-promotion]

Questions related to techniques for promoting pawns, or the promotion itself.

If a player's pawn advances fully to the opponent's edge of the board (the eighth rank for a white pawn, or the first rank for a black pawn), then it is promoted to one of the other types of pieces - queen, rook, bishop or knight. In actual game play, promotion is nearly always to a queen since it is the strongest option. But "underpromotion" is a common theme in the composition of chess problems, and it can be useful or necessary in real games as well. For instance, see these questions and their answers:

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What are some examples of promoting a pawn to a rook or bishop?

I understand the theory, and have seen examples, of endgames where a pawn promoted to a queen creates a draw and instead the player typically promotes to rook. My question is, has this ever occurred in a game at the international level? Instances of…
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A word for the resulting piece of a promotion?

I'm looking for a word that represents the piece after the promotion. In a chemical reaction there are the reactants and the products. Is there an equivalent word for product in promotion? (In case I haven't make it clear: after a8=Q, is there a…
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Pawn-Promotions

The Pawn Promotion, I read that: "A pawn may be promoted to any piece. (NOTE: A common misconception is that pawns may only be exchanged for a piece that has been captured. That is NOT true.)" So, does this mean that if your queen hasn't been…
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Promoting to Rook or Bishop

Is there any chess position where the most correct move would be promoting a pawn on the 7th or 2nd rank to a Rook or Bishop since the queen can perform both their moves.
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