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Promotion

Rule, beginner

Also called Queening, Underpromotion.

A pawn that reaches the last rank becomes a queen, rook, bishop or knight.

Almost always a queen. Choosing anything else is underpromotion, used to avoid stalemate or to give a knight check.

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Related

  • Passed pawnA pawn with no enemy pawn in front of it, on its own file or on either file next to it, so only pieces can stop it.
  • En passantA pawn that moves two squares can be captured by an enemy pawn standing beside it, as if it had moved one square, but only on the very next move.

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