Knight Promotion?
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Yes, there are master games where a pawn under promoted to a knight. The reason to promote to a rook is usually to avoid stalemate. Usually there is no reason to promote to a bishop.
May 5, 2020
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Sophie_Li wrote:
Usually there is no reason to promote to a bishop.
Usually, correct. There are rare cases where promoting to a Rook also gives a stalemate, but underpromoting to a Bishop wins.
Aron Reshko vs Oleg Kaminski, Leningrad ch. 1972.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1253800
Are there any master games where a pawn was promoted to a knight? The only reason I can think why this would happen is an advanced checkmate. On the topic of discussion, any reason why a pawn would promote to a rook or bishop?