robertjames_perez schreef:
I am sure 6...Kd4! 7.Kd2 Bd3 is much faster. There is no need to capture the pawn directly and black can first improve his pieces.
Pawn Promotion to... Bishop?
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Yeah, several times to take rooks without loosing too many points, and to avoid stalemates
Geometrist schreef:
I would take 32...axb3 e.p. and win the game.
solskytz schreef:
<RobertJames Perez> Starting from move 6 in the variation in your post there is a forced win for black. Check it in a good tablebase, you will see...
I went here - http://chessok.com/?page_id=361 - and this is what I got (I inverted the position):
Very nice! 
bishops move diagonal
it might avoid stalemate bread
Seems to me like it’s more common to promote to a knight rather than a rook or bishop, even though rooks are probably more powerful. Mainly it’s situational. Promoting to a bishop rather than a queen is mainly for stalemate, but why not promote to a rook if a queen causes stalemate? And why can’t the enemy king just move to a light square (if the new bishop is dark squared)
I promoted to a bishop and a knight in the same game so I could practice my bishop, knight and king vs king checkmate
I usually like to promote into an extra king so that 2 checkmates are required.
HessianWarrior wrote:
wbbaxterbones wrote:
Sometimes a queen would cause stalemate.
Exactly, I had game where a Queen would have caused a stalemate but the Rook was a winner.
Sometimes you don't need to promote quickly.
sorry, Queen b8 is also ok
k7/n7/3P4/K5N1/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
My old account I rated on lichess 2000
pawn promotion to bishop forced because other moves draw not easy to trap black knight
sometimes underpromotion can leads less trades on boars when both players have equal control on the promoting square i have never seen such cases but found an advantage of underpromotion
Geometrist wrote:
you can play ke6 then a queen on the next turn
bishop means u can get their queen
I still don’t know why, but when checking my analysis in the game report, it said I should have promoted to bishop, not queen. Any idea why?
it might stop stalemate