Pawn Promotion

Started thinking about this when I had to select a Queen for my pawn promotion in a game as my clock was running out and a few more seconds ticked off as I made my "selection"...

Are there any feasible circumstances in which one would rationally select a rook, knight or bishop over a queen?  If not, why shouldn't pawns automatically be promoted to queens?

You can set it to auto-queen in the options.

There are some cases where promoting to a queen would result in a stalemate.

There is also the very rare chance that promoting to a knight will deliver an immediate check which could be advantageous or perhaps checkmate.

Here's a puzzle were you must make use of underpromotion.

When would a promotion to a queen produce a stalemate and a rook/bishop not?

Saavedra position

Here's one my chess teacher showed me, just to understand the logic:

I have seen puzzles where opponents have promoted to a knight and checkmated the opponent.

If you want to set it to auto-queen promotion you CAN on your options!

Interesting, thanks for the info everyone

It's pretty simple, queen cuts off diagonal that king would be able to move to so there is stalemate.

AS "PROMOTEDPAWN" I get to decide ----> I like becoming Queens and Knights. Why would I become a rook or a bishop? They suck in comparison.

 lol

i would either promote to a queen or a knight.nothing else

heres the chart why not promote to a R???its only 0.6%less that the N

also,take a look at this article on wikipedia

Underpromotion: Promotion to rook or bishop