Thursday, January 17, 2008

pawn promotion

This is Lauren!
One thing about the pawn is it can be promoted to any piece except for the king once it gets to
to end of the board.
Most of the time, the pawn is promoted to the most powerful piece on the board, the queen.
That means that it is possible to have 9 queens at once in your army! (This situation is very rare since all eight pawns and your queen can't be captured)
Do you know any reasonable games where the army has 9 queens? I'm very curious about this.

In tournaments, I have seen players promote their pawns to rooks, knights, and even bishops!

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