Quickest promotion

What is your quickest pawn promotion?

Five moves.

24 hrs.

I joined an office as a tea boy - the next day I was moved up
to photo copier attendant.

Why do you ask?

Originally posted by greenpawn34
24 hrs.

I joined an office as a tea boy - the next day I was moved up
to photo copier attendant.

Why do you ask?

Originally posted by greenpawn34


Why do you ask?

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
How did you end up back at tea boy?

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
How did you end up back at tea boy?

Back to the original thread.

I cannot recall any quick 'pawn' promotions from my games.

I found this horror of horrors.

It's a promotion in 5 moves from an actual game.

A.Hickey - K.Jackson,Novi-ch MIW Novi (1), 1994

.....the continuation

The quickest I've found from a game between good players is.


A. Shmit - A. Vitolinsh USSR, 1969

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Back to the original thread.

I cannot recall any quick 'pawn' promotions from my games.

I found this horror of horrors.

It's a promotion in 5 moves from an actual game.

A.Hickey - K.Jackson,Novi-ch MIW Novi (1), 1994


[pgn]1.e4 d5 2.f4 dxe4 3.d3 exd3 4.f5 dxc2 5.Be3 cxd1Q+ 6.Kf2 Qxf1+ 7.Kg3 Qxf5 8.Bf4 Qxf4+ 9.Kxf4 e6 10.g3 Qd4+ 11.Kf3 Qd5+ 12.Kg4 Qxh1 13.Ne2 e5+ 14.Kh4 Qxh2+ 15.Kg5 Qxe2 16.g4 Qxg4[/pgn]


Continued....

lines in the winawer french where white gobbles the g7 and h7 pawns. some lines for white just shove the h pawn forward !

Originally posted by randolph
Nice name, A. Hickey. Must have had a helluva time in high school.