Underpromotion to bishop?
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Feb 13, 2018
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Can there ever arise a situation in chess where underpromotion to a bishop is the best move? If so does anyone have any examples?
Feb 13, 2018
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I realised after I posted this that I put it in the wrong section but can't seem to delete it. If a mod is watching you may delete as I have posted the question on endgame study now.
This happends once in a blue moon!
Isn’t queen basically an upgraded version of bishop? I don’t see why I’d rather have inferior ones since they can both move diagonally but queen is just better. I think the question should be: if it might be worth considering promoting into a knight, since queen can’t move like knight.
Feb 13, 2018
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JoachimH wrote:
I realised after I posted this that I put it in the wrong section but can't seem to delete it. If a mod is watching you may delete as I have posted the question on endgame study now.
next to "new topic", if you are on your thread, you can click "edit topic" (or something like that), and then you can do whatever you want
NovaldyFelix wrote:
Isn’t queen basically an upgraded version of bishop? I don’t see why I’d rather have inferior ones since they can both move diagonally but queen is just better. I think the question should be: if it might be worth considering promoting into a knight, since queen can’t move like knight.
yes, thats why promoting queen is best 99% of times, but look at the first example, if you promote either queen or knight, black is stalemated, only promoting bishop wins, a nice example
