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Statistics on bigamy

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jsaepuru

This:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_%28chess%29

gives some statistics on promotion. Back in 2006, Chessbase had 3 200 000 games.

Their statistics is presented as:

1,5 % games included a promotion - i. e. about 48 000

1,8 % of these were knight underpromotions - i. e. about 860

1,1 % of promotions were rook underpromotions - i. e. about 530

0,2 % of promotions were bishop underpromotions - i. e. about 100.

But about the missing statistics...

Roughly how many queen promotions were bigamous, involving two queens on the same side?

How many underpromotions to knight, rook or bishop included a player having three pieces of the same type?

trysts

Maybe they're queens from other countries helping the king, so therefore no bigamy?

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For two queens of the same color positions, you may want to also filter out games where one of the queens was captured very soon after promotion.