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However, with rook and bishop pawns on the seventh (second) rank, [[stalemate|stalemate]] is looming with the defending king in the corner.
There are even some rare cases with center and knight pawns where the attacking king hinders its own queen to give check <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_versus_pawn_endgame#Central_pawn_or_knight_pawn Queen versus pawn endgame - Central pawn or knight pawn | Wikipedia]</ref>.
This endgame with pawn on the 7th rank often occurs after a [[KPKP]] [[Pawn Race|pawn race]] with [[Unstoppable Passer|unstoppable passers]], where the [[Population Count|cardinality]] of their [[Pawn Spans|frontspans]] differs by two with the defending side to move.
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