Answers.Body: <p>I had a crashed play, and set-up the board manualy.
  As I was playing black, I mistakenly flipped the board.
  Thereby the computer thought I'm already on the other side.</p>
  
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  <p>As I was trying out different chess applications I received a hint from the Lucas Chess virtual tutor, showing me I had a better option:
  Move piece C2 to C1. When I did that, the piece promoted to queen.
  I've tried this on chess.com with the same result.
  What (strange) rule is this, and where can I learn more about promotions?</p>
  <p>EDIT:
  Or, maybe this got triggered by the fact I had a crashed play, and had set-up the board manual, making a mistake by flipping the board so the computer thinks I'm already on the other side.
  That must be it, right? :)</p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-09-30T16:49:57.980Z
Comments.Text: Yes, your edit must be right.
Comments.UserDisplayName: Ross Millikan
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Comments.Text: Yep. You can see the "1" on the bottom row and the "8" on the top row, which indicates the board is flipped from what Black usually sees.
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Comments.CreationDate: 2023-10-03T06:41:28.700Z
Comments.Text: Thx, you can imagina as I don't play regulary how weird this game was. Case solved :)
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Tags: <rules><pawn-promotion>
Title: Promote a piece to queen by moving back aside of king?
ThreadText: # Promote a piece to queen by moving back aside of king?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-09-30)
  
  [![pawn promotion](https://i.sstatic.net/aiUqQ.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/aiUqQ.png)
  
  As I was trying out different chess applications I received a hint from the Lucas Chess virtual tutor, showing me I had a better option:
  Move piece C2 to C1. When I did that, the piece promoted to queen.
  I've tried this on chess.com with the same result.
  What (strange) rule is this, and where can I learn more about promotions?
  
  EDIT:
  Or, maybe this got triggered by the fact I had a crashed play, and had set-up the board manual, making a mistake by flipping the board so the computer thinks I'm already on the other side.
  That must be it, right? :)
  
  **Tags:** rules, pawn-promotion
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Yes, your edit must be right.  
  > **username_2**: Yep. You can see the "1" on the bottom row and the "8" on the top row, which indicates the board is flipped from what Black usually sees.  
  > **username_0**: Thx, you can imagina as I don't play regulary how weird this game was. Case solved :)  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2023-10-03. Score: 1
  
  I had a crashed play, and set-up the board manualy.
  As I was playing black, I mistakenly flipped the board.
  Thereby the computer thought I'm already on the other side.
  
  
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