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That en passant was hot. Be my queen. (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

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[–] ErrantRoleplayer@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

All pawn are actually female, because at most, they can only ever be Queens.

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ShadowAndFlame@mander.xyz 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or to humiliate your opponent

[–] divineslayer@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.

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