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.

[–] ShadowAndFlame@mander.xyz 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or to humiliate your opponent

[–] divineslayer@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

Or possibly promoting to knight would give you checkmate where queen wouldn’t.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

That's why they said "at most"

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

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