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I've been on this site about two weeks, and have finished two games. In each, a pawn was promoted to a rook.

What are the odds of that?

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Originally posted by Wulebgr
I've been on this site about two weeks, and have finished two games. In each, a pawn was promoted to a rook.

What are the odds of that?
Very small odds!!
I played about 1600 games here and this was my only under promotion Game 426067

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I thought I heard the statistic somewhere that 9 times out of ten the player chooses to promote the pawn to a Queen.