Answers.Body: <p>Here are the percentages for each promotion type according to different sources:</p>
  <pre><code>|Promotion type  | ChessBase | TWIC | ICCF |
  --------------------------------------------
  | Queen          |      96.9 | 97.3 | 96.1 |
  | Rook           |       1.1 |  1.1 |  1.7 |
  | Knight         |       1.8 |  1.3 |  1.7 |
  | Bishop         |       0.2 |  0.3 |  0.5 |
  </code></pre>
  <p>Details:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>ChessBase: Percentages from 2006 ChessBase, with 3.2 million games, obtained from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(chess)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a>.</li>
  <li>TWIC: Percentages calculated using my own script from 1.4 million games published in <a href="https://theweekinchess.com/twic" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Week In Chess</a>, issues 920 (Jun. 25th, 2012) to 1358 (Nov. 16th, 2020).</li>
  <li>ICCF: Percentages calculated using my own script from 0.8 million games made available by the <a href="https://www.iccf.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">International Correspondence Chess Federation</a>, from the 1970s to 2018.</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Text: wow 1.1% for rook. only 0.7% behind knight. insane.
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Body: <p>I could not find the database which has this, but I would like to know what percentage of promoted pawns ends up being a queen, rook, bishop, or knight</p>
  
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Comments.Text: [This answer](https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/26799/21604) seems to indirectly tell you what you want to know.
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Title: What are the percentage rates for each promotion type?
ThreadText: # What are the percentage rates for each promotion type?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-17)
  
  I could not find the database which has this, but I would like to know what percentage of promoted pawns ends up being a queen, rook, bishop, or knight
  
  **Tags:** database, statistics, pawn-promotion
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: [This answer](https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/26799/21604) seems to indirectly tell you what you want to know.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-11-18. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
  
  Here are the percentages for each promotion type according to different sources:
  |Promotion type  | ChessBase | TWIC | ICCF |
  --------------------------------------------
  | Queen          |      96.9 | 97.3 | 96.1 |
  | Rook           |       1.1 |  1.1 |  1.7 |
  | Knight         |       1.8 |  1.3 |  1.7 |
  | Bishop         |       0.2 |  0.3 |  0.5 |
  
  Details:
  
  ChessBase: Percentages from 2006 ChessBase, with 3.2 million games, obtained from Wikipedia.
  TWIC: Percentages calculated using my own script from 1.4 million games published in The Week In Chess, issues 920 (Jun. 25th, 2012) to 1358 (Nov. 16th, 2020).
  ICCF: Percentages calculated using my own script from 0.8 million games made available by the International Correspondence Chess Federation, from the 1970s to 2018.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: @username_0 If you think I have answered your question sufficiently well, feel free to accept it.  
  > **username_3**: wow 1.1% for rook. only 0.7% behind knight. insane.  
  
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