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How to Promote a Pawn

From Mark Weeks,
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Pawn reaches its eighth row

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The Pawn gets a special reward for going the distance. The accompanying diagram shows a white Pawn which has moved all the way up to its seventh row. It has only one legal move -- to advance to the eighth -- as shown by the green circle.

On the same move that the white Pawn reaches the eighth row, it must be changed into another piece. This is called 'promoting' the Pawn.

  1. Pawn reaches its eighth row
  2. Pawn becomes another piece
  3. Pawn usually becomes a Queen

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