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rafalzonk

In this game I promoted my free pawn to become queen. The engine for game analysis suggests it would be better if I promoted it into a rook.
How is the rook better choice than the queen?

game link https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/71670901

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rafalzonk wrote:

In this game I promoted my free pawn to become queen. The engine for game analysis suggests it would be better if I promoted it into a rook.
How is the rook better choice than the queen?

game link https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/71670901

Its because you have Forced stalmated

OldPatzerMike
FakeMrBeast68 wrote:
rafalzonk wrote:

In this game I promoted my free pawn to become queen. The engine for game analysis suggests it would be better if I promoted it into a rook.
How is the rook better choice than the queen?

game link https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/computer/71670901

Its because you have Forced stalmated

After White promotes to a Q in the position shown, Black has 13 legal moves. Not even close to a stalemate.

To the OP: the engine does weird things like that sometimes. There are times when promoting to a R instead of a Q does avoid stalemate, but not here. In this case, just ignore the engine.

TheSampson

stockfish evaluating games is like me talking to a woman, don’t worry about it

AbyssGnasher

yeah I would ignore the engine. I figured it did weird stuff but this is ridiculous... Never seen something this obvious be just a thumbs up before.

nklristic

As you can see, the engine says it is better to promote to a queen. Perhaps the depth of the analysis wasn't big enough in your evaluation.