Three Pawn Promotions

[Ovyron]

The games between Bright and Naum are always very exciting on my machine, and here's one of them in where Bright promoted three of its pawns, I had to share it

(This game had 1. e4 c5 forced)

[Date "2008.03.01"]
[White "bright-0.2c"]
[Black "Naum 2.0"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Annotator "2. +0.45 2... +0.74"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[TimeControl "60+7"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 {0.45/14 17} e6 {0.74/14 21} 3. Nc3 {
0.50/13 15} a6 {0.87/13 10} 4. Be2 {0.59/12 10} b5 {1.02/13 8} 5. a3 {
0.69/12 12} Bb7 {0.61/13 8} 6. d3 {0.56/13 11} Qc7 {0.54/12 8} 7. Qd2 {
0.55/11 7} Nf6 {0.34/12 8} 8. O-O {0.49/11 9} Nc6 {0.25/12 8} 9. Qg5 {0.28/12 8
} h6 {0.00/13 8} 10. Qh4 {0.03/12 8} Be7 {-0.05/13 10} 11. Be3 {0.08/11 9} O-O
{-0.32/11 7} 12. Qh3 {-0.10/11 22} d5 {-0.64/12 7} 13. exd5 {-0.28/10 4} exd5 {
-0.70/12 8} 14. d4 {-0.33/11 6} Rfd8 {-0.25/12 18} 15. Bd3 {-0.04/11 7} c4 {
-0.78/11 14} 16. Bf5 {-0.16/12 7} Bf8 {-0.32/11 11} 17. Rad1 {0.13/9 5} g6 {
-0.19/11 7} 18. Qh4 {0.07/11 6} Qe7 {-0.32/12 7} 19. Rfe1 {0.03/12 9} gxf5 {
-0.21/13 7} 20. Bg5 {-0.10/13 7} hxg5 {-0.40/14 7} 21. Qxg5+ {-0.11/14 6} Bg7 {
-0.73/14 7} 22. Rxe7 {-0.17/13 7} Nxe7 {-0.56/13 0} 23. h4 {0.00/14 7} Kf8 {
-0.36/12 7} 24. h5 {0.00/14 7} Ne4 {-0.26/12 7} 25. Qf4 {0.00/14 6} Nxc3 {
-0.27/12 7} 26. bxc3 {0.25/14 6} Rac8 {0.10/14 11} 27. h6 {0.57/15 7} Bf6 {
0.34/13 7} 28. Ne5 {0.67/13 7} Ng6 {0.00/13 7} 29. Qxf5 {1.59/14 6} Bxe5 {
0.00/13 7} 30. dxe5 {1.65/14 5} Rc6 {0.43/14 6} 31. Qg5 {1.54/14 6} Ke8 {
2.11/13 7} 32. f4 {1.76/14 5} Nf8 {1.78/13 7} 33. f5 {2.72/14 7} Bc8 {1.99/12 6
} 34. g4 {2.74/13 7} Rd7 {6.61/12 7} 35. f6 {6.56/14 7} Ng6 {6.94/15 7} 36. h7
{6.80/16 7} Kd8 {6.87/16 6} 37. Qxg6 {6.94/16 7} fxg6 {8.20/15 4} 38. h8=Q+ {
7.49/15 7} Kc7 {8.56/14 1} 39. Qe8 {7.93/15 7} Rd8 {9.48/15 12} 40. f7 {
7.97/15 7} Rxe8 {9.93/15 9} 41. fxe8=Q {8.48/15 7} Kb7 {9.93/13 7} 42. Qf7+ {
8.67/13 7} Kb6 {11.15/14 6} 43. a4 {11.17/14 7} Rc7 {9.98/11 7} 44. e6 {
13.30/13 5} Rxf7 {14.09/12 7} 45. exf7 {#10/13 7} Bxg4 {16.03/12 7} 46. Rxd5 {
#9/11 5} Kc6 {#8/11 3} 47. Rd8 {#7/12 3} bxa4 {#6/8 0} 48. f8=Q {#6/10 0} Bd7 {
#5/7 0} 49. Qe7 {#5/8 0} Kb6 {#4/6 0} 50. Qd6+ {#4/6 0} Bc6 {#3/5 0} 51. Rb8+ {
#3/4 0} Ka7 {#2/4 0} 52. Qc7+ {#2/2 0} Bb7 {#1/3 0} 53. Qxb7# {
#1/1 0 Checkmate !!} 1-0

I wonder how often does it happen?

[Mike S.]

I wonder how often does it happen?

For games between human players, Tim Krabbé has found games with 6 promotions (in one case, 4 promotions by one side):

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm

[Event "Plzen op-A 9th"]
[Site "Plzen"]
[Date "2003.08.16"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Kubikova,Alena"]
[Black "Novy,Vaclav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Eco "B78"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3 0-0 8.Qd2 Nc6
9.Bc4 Bd7 10.0-0-0 Rc8 11.Bb3 Ne5 12.h4 h5 13.Kb1 a5 14.Bg5 Rc5 15.g4 hxg4 16.f4 Nc4
17.Bxc4 Rxc4 18.e5 Bc6 19.Nxc6 Rxc6 20.exf6 exf6 21.Nd5 fxg5 22.hxg5 Rc5 23.Nf6+ Bxf6 24.Qh2 Re8
25.Qh7+ Kf8 26.gxf6 Qxf6 27.Qh8+ Ke7 28.Rde1+ Re5 29.Qxf6+ Kxf6 30.fxe5+ dxe5 31.Kc1 Kg5 32.Rh7 f5
33.Rxb7 g3 34.Kd2 Kg4 35.Rb3 f4 36.c4 e4 37.c5 e3+ 38.Kd3 Rd8+ 39.Ke4 g2 40.c6 e2
41.c7 Rc8 42.Rc3 f3 43.Ke3 Kg3 44.Rc5 Re8+ 45.Kd2 Kf2 46.c8=Q Rxc8 47.Rxc8 g1=Q 48.Rxg1 Kxg1
49.Rc1+ Kf2 50.b3 g5 51.a3 g4 52.b4 axb4 53.axb4 g3 54.b5 g2 55.b6 g1=Q 56.Rxg1 Kxg1
57.b7 f2 58.b8=Q e1=Q+ 59.Kc2 Qe2+ 60.Kc3 Qe3+ 61.Kb4 f1=Q 0-1