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How Come the 'extra' queen????

She's a beauty, and nicely staged to boot! I love the curl in some of the maple squares.

JPG wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:23 am How Come the 'extra' queen????

A rare occurrence, but when you successfully advance one of your pawns to your opponent's last row, you can exchange the pawn for any other piece. Usually, the choice if for a queen. But if you haven't already lost your own queen, there's no piece to substitute for the pawn. The usual solution is to take some other piece you've lost, like a bishop or a rook, and designate it as a queen but that gets confusing for everyone. The second queen solves this rare problem.

BuckeyeDennis wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:07 am She's a beauty, and nicely staged to boot! I love the curl in some of the maple squares.

My daughter did the staging/photography.

JPG wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 9:23 am How Come the 'extra' queen????

In chess, you can promote more than one pawn to Queen.