Answers.Body: <p>You pause the clock, call an arbiter and an additional queen will be provided.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Under USCF rule 8F7:, it <em>is</em> acceptable to place a rook upside-down if a spare queen is not available.</p>
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  <p>If the desired piece is not available to replace a promoted pawn, the player may stop both clocks in order to locate that piece and place it on the board. A player who cannot quickly find such a piece may request the assistance of the director. It is common practice, however, to play using an upside-down rook for a second queen. In the absence of the player’s announcement to the contrary, an upside-down rook shall be considered a queen.</p>
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  <p>Under FIDE rules, you can't use an upside-down rook as a spare queen, but you can find the answer hidden in the section about the clocks:</p>
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  <p>6.11.2  A player may stop the chessclock only in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, for example when promotion has taken place and the piece required is not available.</p>
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Answers.Text: This actually happened a few days ago in the game Krzysztof - Demchenko, 2021 European Blitz Championship.  There is a video of the game here: https://youtu.be/_bfamBcHwDk?t=1100
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Body: <p>Most chess sets come with only one spare queen, and according to the video in the question <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/33316/is-holding-the-opponents-captured-pieces-legal-or-allowed">Is holding the opponent&#39;s captured pieces legal or allowed?</a>, one cannot use an upside-down rook because is effectively the same as promoting to a rook.</p>
  <p>If two queens are already on the board, how can one promote a third one?</p>
  
Tags: <rules><pawn-promotion><otb-chess>
Title: How does one promote a third queen in an over-the-board game?
ThreadText: # How does one promote a third queen in an over-the-board game?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-12-12)
  
  Most chess sets come with only one spare queen, and according to the video in the question [Is holding the opponent's captured pieces legal or allowed?](https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/33316/is-holding-the-opponents-captured-pieces-legal-or-allowed), one cannot use an upside-down rook because is effectively the same as promoting to a rook.
  
  If two queens are already on the board, how can one promote a third one?
  
  **Tags:** rules, pawn-promotion, otb-chess
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2020-12-12. Score: 28 | Accepted answer
  
  Under USCF rule 8F7:, it *is* acceptable to place a rook upside-down if a spare queen is not available.
  
  > If the desired piece is not available to replace a promoted pawn, the player may stop both clocks in order to locate that piece and place it on the board. A player who cannot quickly find such a piece may request the assistance of the director. It is common practice, however, to play using an upside-down rook for a second queen. In the absence of the player’s announcement to the contrary, an upside-down rook shall be considered a queen.
  
  Under FIDE rules, you can't use an upside-down rook as a spare queen, but you can find the answer hidden in the section about the clocks:
  
  > 6.11.2 A player may stop the chessclock only in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, for example when promotion has taken place and the piece required is not available.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: This actually happened a few days ago in the game Krzysztof - Demchenko, 2021 European Blitz Championship.  There is a video of the game here: https://youtu.be/_bfamBcHwDk?t=1100  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-12-12. Score: 22
  
  You pause the clock, call an arbiter and an additional queen will be provided.
  
  
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