𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 to [email protected]English • 8 months agoThat en passant was hot. Be my queen.imagemessage-square12arrow-up1455arrow-down15
arrow-up1450arrow-down1imageThat en passant was hot. Be my queen.𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆 to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square12
minus-squareErrantRoleplayerlinkEnglish9•8 months agoAll pawn are actually female, because at most, they can only ever be Queens.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink29•8 months agoYou can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It’s mostly a “why would you ever do that?” thing, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish23•8 months agoThere are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate
minus-square@divineslayerlink17•8 months agoOr possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•8 months agoThe newest research on this topic found out that the “pawn” is actually hermaphrodite.
All pawn are actually female, because at most, they can only ever be Queens.
You can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It’s mostly a “why would you ever do that?” thing, though.
There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate
Or to humiliate your opponent
Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.
That’s why they said “at most”
The newest research on this topic found out that the “pawn” is actually hermaphrodite.