this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It makes a lot more sense in the earlier versions of chess. The queen used to be the "Vizier". The sultan made the decisions, the Vizier ran around and implemented them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

that's what it's called in my language.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago

The higher ups are fighting for the kingdom but the pawns are fighting for hrt

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Getting all of your pawns to become queens. The move I call "The King's Harem."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All pawn are actually female, because at most, they can only ever be Queens.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or to humiliate your opponent

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That's why they said "at most"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The newest research on this topic found out that the "pawn" is actually hermaphrodite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

No, all pawns are trans. They can end up either as a queen or a knight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"But you already have a queen on the board"

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