An Allumwandlung (German for “complete promotion”, sometimes shortened to AUW) is a chess problem where, at some stage in the solution, a pawn (or sometimes pawns) is promoted variously to a Knight, Bishop, Rook and Queen, in fairy chess, possibly to fairy pieces.
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Quotes of the Day
‘We may all be equal in the eyes of the Lord, but in my eyes you are certainly not equal to me.’
Robert Fischer
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.
Garry Kasparov 2014
When I am in the USSR, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.
Hans Ree
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
” The essence of chess is thinking about what chess is.”
David Bronstein
