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It makes a lot more sense in the earlier versions of chess. The queen used to be the “Vizier”. The sultan made the decisions, the Vizier ran around and implemented them.

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that’s what it’s called in my language.

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42 points

The higher ups are fighting for the kingdom but the pawns are fighting for hrt

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Getting all of your pawns to become queens. The move I call “The King’s Harem.”

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9 points

All pawn are actually female, because at most, they can only ever be Queens.

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29 points

You can actually promote a pawn to any other piece as well (rook, bishop, knight, etc.), this is known as underpromotion. It’s mostly a “why would you ever do that?” thing, though.

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24 points

There are some situations where promoting to a Queen would result in a stalemate

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11 points

Or to humiliate your opponent

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6 points

That’s why they said “at most”

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4 points

The newest research on this topic found out that the “pawn” is actually hermaphrodite.

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0 points

No, all pawns are trans. They can end up either as a queen or a knight.

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7 points

“But you already have a queen on the board”

“Have you heard of a sex act called ‘the ladder mate’? You’re the bottom bitch”

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