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Somewhat agreed. I'm a decent-ish amateur player and if I'm playing bullet or blitz chess with very low time left on the clock (<10 seconds), and its king pawn vs king ending and I'm about to convert my pawn, I will almost always choose to under promote to a rook instead of promoting to a queen because I am 100% sure I can mechanically checkmate my opponent without accidentally stalemating (due to a blunder under extreme time pressure) while spending virtually no clock time. I could almost certainly do it with a queen, but it's for my own peace of mind that I use a rook instead. Safe and easy victory, but it'd count as a blunder.



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