how many queens can i have?

is there a limit to the number of queens you can get in one game? are there any specific rules for this? i've seen games with 2 queens, but only in the chess puzzles do i see more than that. anyone have experience with this?

You can never have more than 9

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Unless both players are promoting queens, or some other existential reason, it would be considered a bit obnoxious and rude to keep promoting to more queens instead of focusing on mating the opponent. Plus with too many queens, a player can run the very real risk that they control so many squares that the opponent's king runs out of squares to flee to and draws by stalemate.

It depends; e.g. is your original queen the jealous type?

ok, yes, when i look at it the way you explained it, seems pretty obvious--not sure why i didn't see that before. iguess there aren't many games where a player gets to have that many queens...

In over the board chess, in all practicality, it would be execptional to have more than 2 queens on the board. Wooden sets, the good ones, not ones from the toy section of Walmart or Kmart or Target, routinely come with 2 queens now. That trend was started by House of Staunton, and it's got the market share of serious chess players buying wooden chess sets... at least in the USA. There are a couple of other online companies that also sell a lot of wooden chess sets, and pretty much after that, the companies are either trying to sell really cheap wooden sets, or fill in some other niche.

I won't include Jaques of London though. they're more of a general games company that just happens to sell high end chess sets that a lot of players would love to have, just to say they own a Jaques of London chess set.

Otherwise, it's standard for players to use an upside down rook to represent a queen.