@ketchuplover saidPlay enough blitz and you'll get most of these...except maybe the Bishop.
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I've underpromoted just to mess with my opponent; for example, capturing a piece with a pawn on the 8th rank and promoting bishop.
In live games online, you can see the timer winding down as they're deciding whether capturing is worth a move or not. Once in a while they'll ignore it for a more positional move, which ends up working in my favor in the end.
@ketchuplover saidCan't remember selecting another piece or how many times,except maybe once when a queen would have meant stalemate but a rook didn't
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If you have done more than once with particular pieces please indicate below. Thanx.
I removed my previous post
(never done that before, wanted to see if I could replace it)
All it said was I'll be back later today with some promotions with mate stats.
Promotion giving checkmate stats.
White = 10,979
Black = 10,591
White Queen = 9,583
White Rook = 1,310
White Bishop = 37
White Knight =49
Black Queen = 9,187
Black Rook = 1,332
Black Bishop = 32
Black Knight = 40
80% of that number (possibly higher) are players with won positions v players who
have chosen not to resign, as they are entitled to do, and play for a stalemate.
(Up until 2021 There have been 14,755 stalemates on RHP.)
The under promotions to a Rook or Bishop could easily have been a Queen.
You only under promote in these circumatances to avoid stalemate.
Some of the promoted Knight mates are players being cute forcing a player
into a position with a Queen and Rook to be mate with a Knight promotion.
This game is one when only a Knight promotion will do.
carles - taheri RHP 2007
Here's a composition by Troitsky, 1925 which requires a B promotion to win.
- line 3: Unrecognised token 'B'
- move 14 could not be played: Invalid PGN : Error converting move Kb7
[FEN "8/p3B2p/1P5P/3P4/5r2/3k4/8/6K1 w - - 0 1"]
1. b7 Rg4+ 2. Kf2 Rg8 3. d6 {The Rook can only take out one pawn. As for the other...} 3... Kc4 4. d7 Kb5 5. d8=Q Rxd8 6. Bxd8 Ka6 { ... Black plays for stalemate.} 7. b8B {The only winning move. If 7. b8N, then ...Kb7 8.Nd7 Kc8 and white loses mating material. He cannot convert the b6 pawn if bK goes to g8.} 7... Kb7 8. Bbc7 Kc6 {Black can make it to g8, and hold the pawn. White cannot kick him out. However...} 9. Kf3 Kd5 10. Kf4 a5 11. Bxa5 Ke6 12. Ke4 Kf7 13. Kf5 Kg8 14. Ke6 Kf8 15. Kf6 Kg8 16. Be7 Kh8 17. Bb6 Kg8 18. Bd4 Kh8 19. Kf7# 1-0
