How do I win games in chess by pawn promotion?

I’m not an avid chess player myself, but I do know the game and play it occasionally.

I would recommend that you not devote a lot of playing time to a particular strategy to the exclusion of all others; you have to play “the game that’s in front of you”. That advice doesn’t apply only to chess, by the way.

As a chess player, you have a general idea of the relative rankings of the various pieces on the board. Most pieces don’t become dramatically “more valuable” as the game goes on, but pawns are the notable exception to that general rule. So late in the game your strategy may have to change to reflect the much higher value that an opponent’s sixth rank pawn has, and sacrifice accordingly. By the same token, you have to realize that your own pawns that have advanced to the fifth and sixth rank are more valuable than they were at the second rank, and not give them up easily – they must be strongly defended at that point.

This Youtube channel helped me up my game in a few areas. Well worth a look.

Firstly, I have never made an effort to really study chess strategy, but I do play a respectable game. So… take my advice with a grain of salt.

It seems to me that any strategy that focuses on a single goal such as promoting a pawn puts you at a tactical disadvantage, for while you are advancing that goal all your opponent need do is stand in the way and wait for you to pass up another tactical opportunity in order to pursue your goal of pawn promotion, which they will then use to strengthen their overall position.

If I recall Sun Tzu said something in his famous work “The Art of War” that amounted to a reminder that your goal is not to win battles, but to win the war.

I’m not at all a “chess master” but I think I’ll add that, to get a good chance at promoting a pawn, you’ll benefit (paradoxically) from allowing some of your pawns to get captured. Make sure your opponent’s pawns do the capturing. Since pawns capture diagonally, allowing your opponent’s pawns to capture some of your pieces is one of the only ways to get their pawns out of your way to make it across.

Sounds like you are going about your game wrong. What you are trying to do is just as absurd as wanting to pitch a perfect game and being discouraged that it didn’t happen…again. Pitchers go out to pitch the best they can to WIN. Once in a blue moon they have the opportunity to pitch a no hitter or even a perfect game. So too, in chess. We play the best we can with what is available on the board. I love it when I have the opportunity to fork the king and queen with a knight, but I can’t force it. I can’t build my whole game on one tactic. I may see an opportunity to work a strategy towards the goal, but it may not work.

It would help you tremendously to read some books, watch vids, etc…
I recommend books by Yassir Serwain. He is easy to read and his series covers the basic fundamentals of chess.

have fun

@CWOTUS oops I think I kind of repeated something you already said.

S’okay, @valdasta. I take it as validation.