Promotion

Promotion is where the pawn reaches its eighth rank and converted to a Queen, Rook, Knight, or Bishop of the same color. The pawn will be replaced with the new piece on the same spot. The choice of promotion is not limited to the opponent's captured piece, and the player is allowed to have more than a specific type of piece than the number of that piece from the startup. This means that a player is allowed to draw as many pieces as desired, but of course, there are limited number of promotion due to a maximum of 8 pawns.

Promotion to a piece
The Queen is the most common promoted piece, just because it is the most powerful piece in the game of chess. However, in a rare situations, where promoting to a Queen will result in an automatic stalemate, a player has can also promote a pawn to a Rook, Bishop, or Knight. Out of all of the games that are played worldwide, the chance of promoting a pawn to a various piece is shown below: