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There are even times when this is the right move. Sometimes you can put them in check by promoting to a knight, for example, where a queen would not. Common i
by retrac 5y ago
There are even times when this is the right move. Sometimes you can put them in check by promoting to a knight, for example, where a queen would not. Common in beginner puzzles.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoThis is a very nice illustration of this, where a player had to turn off autoconversion to queen on the last seconds to win the game: https://youtu.be/HFG8pCInJKw https://youtu.be/HFG8pCInJKw
- not1ofU 5y agoYour comment reminded me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wCJalNkTEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wCJalNkTEI Text: https://en.chessbase.com/post/solution-to-a-truly-remarkable-study https://en.chessbase.com/post/solution-to-a-truly-remarkable...
- yoru-sulfur 5y agoAnother situation where you would want to convert to something other than a queen is when doing so would result in a stalemate.