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queening

queening

6.3
The act of turning a pawn into the most powerful chess piece
  • noun
  • /ˈkwinɪŋ/
  • Jargon
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  • The player focused on queening as quickly as possible to gain an advantage.

Examples

  • The player achieved queening after advancing the pawn.

  • After queening, he used the new queen to checkmate his opponent.

  • Her strategic queening of the pawn changed the outcome of the match.

  • Is queening a crucial part of chess strategy?

  • In chess, queening occurs when a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board and is promoted to a queen.

  • After a series of strategic moves, she successfully executed a queening, greatly changing the game's dynamics.

  • He announced his queening, transforming a pawn into a powerful queen that threatened his opponent's pieces.

Surface Forms

queening singular
queening plural

Morphology

queening = queen (semi-transparent) = queen + ing

The word is built transparently from 'queen' + '-ing', but the chess-specific meaning is specialized rather than fully general.

Etymology

Queening comes from queen meaning 'female ruler' and the ending -ing meaning 'the act of'. In chess you 'crown' a pawn by turning it into a queen, so queening is the act of promoting a pawn to a queen.