Why promote to a bishop and Not to The Queen ?
Sort:
MrsUmbrige
Mar 25, 2021
0
#1
Hello together , anytime i Look an Hikaru Stream and He dont Promote to a Queen , he Promote a bishop.
can anyone tell me why?!!!! i mean The Queen do the same. The only Thing what is possible is that he dont wanna check them but that wasnt so.
so ... Tell me whyyyyyyyyyy (yyyyy) :P
It’s So he doesn’t stalemate
Mar 25, 2021
0
#3
He probably just does it to troll the opponent.
There are sometimes good reasons to under-promote, though. Usually, it's done to avoid a stalemate.
Here's an endgame where promoting to a Queen leads only to a draw (by Stalemate) but promoting to a Rook will win:
And from one of my own games, a position where promoting to either a Queen or Rook will only draw by Stalemate, but promoting to a Bishop will win:
Beginner20010 wrote:
Hello together , anytime i Look an Hikaru Stream and He dont Promote to a Queen , he Promote a bishop. can anyone tell me why?!!!! i mean The Queen do the same. The only Thing what is possible is that he dont wanna check them but that wasnt so. so ... Tell me whyyyyyyyyyy (yyyyy) :P
I had a game which my opponent has "correctly" promoted to a bishop on square a1 - not because of what blueemu noted, but because promoting to a bishop would not put my king in check (unlike a queen which would have given a check to my king along the same rank).
Of course, I had a rook to capture the promoted pawn since my rook was along the same file. However, a queen promotion forces me to capture the queen (ok, moving my king was also legal) since illegal moves are not registered. However, a promotion to a bishop would cause any mouse-slip of my rook (eg to a2) to be a legal move, allowing the newly promoted bishop to escape.
Of course, I did not mouse-slip at all (fortunately) and proceeded to capture the promoted pawn.