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That en passant was hot. Be my queen. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or to humiliate your opponent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.