Here is an interesting mate in 3...
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pawn promotion
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Feb 1, 2012
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#3
bsabbath62 wrote:
i have never seen or heard of a pawn being promoted to anything else but a queen, i am interested to know if anyone here has seen or heard of a pawn being promoted to a rook , knight, or bishop.
There are lots (well, some, anyway) of games where underpromotion occurred as a serious move rather than just screwing around. The section on "Underpromotion" in Wikipedia's Pawn Promotion article gives several examples, most relatively recent, of promotions to Knights and Bishops.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(chess)
You'll have to copy and paste the link-- it won't hyperlink properly in this post.
EDIT: In Zurakhov vs. Koblentz, Tbilisi 1956 White promoted to a Knight twice in the game, and in both instances that was required to save the game-- any other promotion was losing.
Feb 1, 2012
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#4
This happened in an OTB tournament game I played just this past Saturday. I'm pretty sure I made the only move to have drawing chances.
igorbzvz wrote:
Here is an interesting mate in 3...
The solution is great!
Great one!
i have never seen or heard of a pawn being promoted to anything else but a queen, i am interested to know if anyone here has seen or heard of a pawn being promoted to a rook , knight, or bishop.