PROMOTION

When a pawn reaches the last rank on the opposite side of the board, it is replaced with either a queen, rook, bishop or knight. The piece a pawn is promoted to does not need to be one previously captured, so there may be two or more queens of the same colour on the board at one time, or three knights, etc. The queen is most often used when promoting, since it is the most powerful piece.

[Event "PROMOTION"] [Date "1920"] [Round ""] [White "Lasker, Em"] [Black "Simult "] [Result "1-0"] [FEN "1k5r/1P2q3/1Q6/7p/6p1/6Pp/2R4P/7K w - - 0 1"] 1. Rc8+! Rxc8 2. Qa7+! Kxa7 3. bxc8=N+!! 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.

Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence. Robert Fischer
1960
In addition to talent, Magnus has the health of a racehorse and a powerful nervous system. Vladimir Kramnik
2015
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else! Boris Spassky
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. Yury Balashov

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