Winning promotion tactic, on move #8! Glicksteen vs E Lawrence, 1971  (A02) Bird's Opening, 9 moves, 0-1 Two sacs (moves 42 & 43) clear way for 3 pawns to beat 1 rook P Troeger vs G Hodakowsky, 1957  (A48) King's Indian, 45 moves, 1-0 Clever combination peels away defense of promotion square Keene vs C Micheli, 1973   (E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 31 moves, 1-0 Extremely rare required underpromotion to a bishop. A Reshko vs O Kaminsky, 1972  (A29) English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto, 71 moves, 1-0 Bishop underpromotion to avoid stalemate D Tomic vs F Winzbeck, 1993  (B83) Sicilian, 44 moves, 1-0 Who needs a queen when you have ...SUPERPAWN! Y Rusakov vs B Verlinsky, 1947  (C20) King's Pawn Game, 10 moves, 0-1 Pawn threat prevents Black from mating White after 33. Qg7!! Y Shen vs E Karavade, 2006  (B92) Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation, 33 moves, 1-0 Underpromotion to knight delivers mate A Sandrin vs P Le Cornu, 1949  (A16) English, 28 moves, 1-0 White is faced with dilemma after 39...f5+! Only move: resign A Nimzowitsch vs Tarrasch, 1911  (C45) Scotch Game, 39 moves, 0-1 Pawns attack on both sides: White's clever technique wins. G Garcia Gonzalez vs Quinteros, 1982  (E97) King's Indian, 51 moves, 1-0 32. Qe5! -- an instructive type of move to be aware of. Capablanca vs B H Villegas, 1914  (D04) Queen's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 1-0 38...Ne3! knight sac provides cover for passed h-pawn A Medina Garcia vs Tal, 1966  (B43) Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3, 38 moves, 0-1 36. Be5 removes all doubt by pinning promotion defender Fischer vs Euwe, 1960  (B13) Caro-Kann, Exchange, 36 moves, 1-0 Carlsen removes 2 defenders & gains rook with 40...Qxg1! Onischuk vs Carlsen, 2007  (E20) Nimzo-Indian, 42 moves, 0-1 The bishop sac 39.Bg8! leaves black in promo-threat quandry Ljubojevic vs G Tringov, 1982  (A07) King's Indian Attack, 42 moves, 1-0 34...Rc4! a clever clearance sac/deflection A Yurgis vs Botvinnik, 1931  (A15) English, 37 moves, 0-1 Force your opponent's piece to help you to promote a pawn! Averbakh vs Korchnoi, 1965  (A49) King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4, 39 moves, 0-1 Using the opposing knight and 2 sacs to aid promotion R Rodriguez vs Van der Wiel, 1982  (E15) Queen's Indian, 75 moves, 1-0 Black sacs rook (twice) in order to produce promotion H Munoz Sotomayor vs H Salazar Jacob, 1990  (B83) Sicilian, 59 moves, 0-1 Nice rook work, using exchange sac threats to force promotion J Polgar vs K Arkell, 1988  (B14) Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack, 40 moves, 1-0 15...Qd5+ makes nice use of pins to force promotion NN vs W Donisthorpe, 1890  (C35) King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham, 19 moves, 0-1 Nothing fancy - just nice knight sac to send pawns running K Lie vs X Bu, 2008  (B10) Caro-Kann, 42 moves, 1-0 This should probably be called an "anti-promotion" tactic F Vallejo Pons vs A Nunez, 1992  (C45) Scotch Game, 42 moves, 1-0 23 games