It promotes your pawn into a queen automatically instead of you being able to choose what piece you would like to promote to.
What's the auto-queen setting do?
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Jan 28, 2021
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Dale wrote:
It promotes your pawn into a queen automatically instead of you being able to choose what piece you would like to promote to.
Oh cool. Seems useful for time. Thanks!
Aug 10, 2022
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#4
In some occasions you need to underpromote to prevent a stalemate because of the auto queen enabled and it is good to disable it.
Aug 10, 2022
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ChessOfficial2016 wrote:
In some occasions you need to underpromote to prevent a stalemate because of the auto queen enabled and it is good to disable it.
I'd agree in longer times like rapid and longer blitz.
For bullet and low blitz time controls, auto-queen would probably help you win more games than lose.
Aug 10, 2022
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#6
It automatically starts off the game replacing all your pawns with queens.
Aug 10, 2022
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#7
Learned something. I hadn’t thought of any situation in which you wouldn’t want a queen. Turning auto off (for rapid).
Aug 10, 2022
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#8
Sometimes you’d want to promote to a knight so you can promote the pawn while checking the king if the king is in the right spot. Also sometimes you want to promote to a bishop or rook if promoting to a queen is stalemate.
Aug 15, 2022
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#9
If you play on a computer, you can press and hold the ALT key to suppress the auto-queen promotion.
Aug 15, 2022
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In theory you might want to under-promote. We can construct situations where it's useful or even necessary to change the outcome of a match. That's what the rule is for, but I'm wondering how often you actually need to do that. 1 in a 10,000 matches? 1 in a million? 1 in a billion matches? Are there easily engineered patterns which a losing player would otherwise use to force a stalemate or is this just a bizarre rule which is of very little practical importance?
Same as title. Thanks!