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White wins the Knight for a pawn in 4 moves or checkmates in 2 moves!

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Chess Tactics For Students

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 305:

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Chess Tactics For Students is a workbook for intermediate and advanced students containing 434 carefully selected problems in worksheet format. Chess Tactics has been extensively field tested with elementary, middle-school, and high-school students over a four-year period.

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Answer – Diagram 304:

1. Bc4+                           Kh8

2. Bb5/f7                        g6

3. e8=Q                          Nxe8

4. Bxf8

or

1. Bc4+                            Nxc4??

2. e8=Q#


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