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Chess tactics

Underpromotion

Sometimes a knight is better than a queen.

Example

A new queen on e8 would be taken. What about a knight?

  1. 1. e8=N+: A knight, with check, and it attacks the queen too.
  2. 1... Kd7: The king moves…
  3. 2. Nxg7: …and the knight takes the queen.

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