𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 to [email protected]English • 1 year agoThat en passant was hot. Be my queen.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1454arrow-down14
arrow-up1450arrow-down1imageThat en passant was hot. Be my queen.lemmy.world𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•1 year agoYou can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It’s mostly a “why would you ever do that?” thing, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish24•1 year agoThere are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•1 year agoOr possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.
You can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It’s mostly a “why would you ever do that?” thing, though.
There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate
Or to humiliate your opponent
Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.
That’s why they said “at most”