Pawn promotion but no extra queen piece?

If you promote a pawn to a queen and there are no extra queens, how do you represent a queen? What did they do before sets came with extra queens?

Turn a rook upside down? Use a coin, button, whatever.

when i'm in time trouble, I just use the promoted pawn as a queen. when I'm not however, I turn a rook upside down.

LOL I can picture Carlsen moving pennys and buttons in the next WC!

Upside down rook sounds a lot better than just snatching a queen off of someone elses game 

Thanks for the responses.

Sigh. To have two queens... such a distant dream. If only I had those kinds of problems.

ok revived great...

We need tiny hats for the pawns, like a little crown that just clicks to the top

I heard that some guy made a pawn that transforms into a queen. Search it up on youtube

Sometimes, small markers or tokens would be placed on the board to indicate the promoted piece.

Don't let this thread die, just turn the rook upside down!

Don't do that in a FIDE rated event. That's a rook.

yup for fide rules, upside rook=rook not queen

it happened in a club event 3 days ago and they agreed to a draw (white was winning but did upside rook instead of queen)

I mean in a FIDE official game, a rook placed on the board is always a rook. If you want a queen, you need to pause the clocks and get the arbiter to assist getting another queen to place on the board.

There is no such thing as promoting 9 queens or rooks or knights or bishops with 9 pawns that are not captured in real life but, you can buy 9 chess to update into a chess 2025