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
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…
Vladimir Kramnik 2017
I will be World Champion, if not now I will be World Champion later, but of course better now!
Sergey Karjakin 2016
Of chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it, but that is the fault of life, not chess.
Irving Chernev
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game
Siegbert Tarrasch
