This is one of the most important of all the tactical themes. For successful queening of the pawn is equivalent to being a Queen ahead. And even if your opponent loses “only” a piece in getting rid of the new Queen, he has suffered a disastrous material loss.
Since successful pawn promotion is so valuable a resource, it offers considerable scope for striking sacrifices of material. Thus, it is well worth while to sacrifice one’s queen in order to promote to a new Queen which gives checkmate in the act of queening.
In the given figure, it is interesting as showing how the potential queening possibility can inspire a player to create a whole series of pretty tactical stokes. Given a clue of the situation- in this case the location of a pawn on the seventh rank- a player can think up one resourceful move after another. But the initial impetus is the most important of all, and that is why it is of great value to be well aware or the enormous power of the pawn promotion.
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