White promotes the c-pawn to a Queen in 3 moves!

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Chapter 10 Promoting Pawns –

PROMOTING A PAWN, often called Queening a Pawn, is one of the most powerful moves in chess.

Promoting a pawn often results in being a Queen ahead! Because of this, sacrificing one or more pieces to make it possible to promote a pawn may be the best strategy in many positions.

Promoting a pawn often takes two or more moves to set up, as shown in Diagram 280.

Next, PROMOTING PAWNS Diagram 294:

White promotes the b-pawn to a Queen in 2 moves >

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Answer – Diagram 293:

1. Rd8+                        Rxd8

2. Rf8+                         Kxf8

3. cxd8=Q+

or

1. Rd8+                        Rxd8

2. Rf8+                         Kd7??

3. cxd8=Q+