Promotion: Rook

Promotion: Rook
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♪Games where the pawn promotes to a rook. In order by date.

Usually they promote to a rook to avoid stalemate. Since the queen combines the power of a rook & bishop, there is usually not a reason to promote to such a piece.

1) Sometimes, they just like to use technique.

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1.f8=R# 1-0 is perfectly fine (or a queen).

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White is getting ready to take the pawn to draw.

Promotion to a queen is also a draw (stalemate).

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(1/2-1/2)

However, a rook would win eventually.

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(0-1)

3) There's also...

(rest coming soon)

56.f8=R# 1-0
Keres vs J Turn, 1943
(C86) Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack, 56 moves, 1-0
86.g8=R
Sajtar vs Benko, 1954
(A54) Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3, 86 moves, 1-0
46...g1=R 0-1
Serper vs C Navrotescu, 1988
(C05) French, Tarrasch, 46 moves, 0-1
58...d1=R
Deep Junior vs Deep Fritz, 2001
(C42) Petrov Defense, 109 moves, 1-0
77...f1=R
Stockfish vs Rybka, 2009
(D14) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation, 78 moves, 0-1
58.exd8=R
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2010
(D07) Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense, 86 moves, 1/2-1/2
81.d8=R
D Howell vs Judit Polgar, 2012
(B16) Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation, 82 moves, 1/2-1/2
74...e1=R
V Erdos vs Mamedyarov, 2012
(E62) King's Indian, Fianchetto, 74 moves, 0-1

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