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Positions where pawn promotion to queen is worse than to other piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RptrNJFFJJw
This is the "trap line" of Albin Counter-Gambit. at 3:10, you can see that promoting to a Knight is better than promoting to a Queen, simply ...
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Positions where pawn promotion to queen is worse than to other piece
Here is a list of underpromotions in famous games: https://www.chess.com/article/view/9-amazing-underpromotions
Underpromotion to a knight is not that rare, especially in cases where the new knight ...
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Positions where pawn promotion to queen is worse than to other piece
Knight promotion is reasonably common (though not nearly as much so as Queening); Rook and especially Bishop, much less so, because the only motivation is stalemate avoidance(*). Tim Krabbé has a ...
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Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling queenside in a high-level game?
According to that CQL query :
cql(input Megabase2023.pgn)
mate
move previous from [Kk] o-o-o
15 games had queen side castle deliver checkmate, including 5 by 2000+ players
[Title "Vlassov, ...
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Has checkmate ever been achieved by castling kingside in a high-level game?
According to that CQL query :
cql(input Megabase2023.pgn)
mate
move previous from [Kk] o-o
There are twelve games where the castling king side delivered a checkmate, 4 of which played by 1600+ ...
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