square. In shogi, Side Pawn Capture (横歩取り yokofudori, also translated as Side Pawn Picker, Side Pawn Piker or simply 横歩 yokofu Side Pawn) is a Double Static...

Side Pawn Capture P*23 Variation ☖ pieces in hand: – ☗ pieces in hand: 歩歩 Side Pawn Capture Pawn*23 (横歩取り☖2三歩 yokofudori ni-san fu) or Side Pawn Capture...

Side Pawn Capture ☖ pieces in hand: 角 歩歩歩 ☗ pieces in hand: 角 歩歩歩 In shogi, Double Side Pawn Capture (相横歩取り ai-yokofudori) is a Side Pawn Capture (Double...

Side Pawn Capture Bishop-33 Variation ☖ pieces in hand: 歩歩 ☗ pieces in hand: 歩歩歩 In shogi, Side Pawn Capture Bishop-33 (横歩取り3三角 or 横歩取り☖3三角 yokofudori...

歩歩歩歩 In shogi, Side Pawn Capture, Bishop*45 variation or Side Pawn B*4e (横歩取り☖４五角 yokofudori yon-go kaku) is a Rapid Attack Side Pawn Capture variation in...

may capture one square diagonally forward. Each player begins a game with eight pawns, one on each square of their second rank. The white pawns start...

rook in compact castles while openings like Double Wing Attack and Side Pawn Capture have rather minimal castle formations with much less king safety in...

hand: 角 歩歩歩 Side Pawn Capture Rapid Attack Bishop*33 (横歩取り急戦３三角 yokofudori kyūsen san-san kaku) is a variation stemming from the Side Pawn Capture opening...

checkmate, capture the defending rook, or successfully promote the pawn. In some cases, thirty-five moves are required to advance the pawn once. The play...

fifty-move rule A draw may be claimed if no capture or pawn move has occurred in the last fifty moves by either side. For the occurrence of seventy-five such...

hatch for their king with an edge pawn push. Around this point, Black has a choice between attacking White on the right side of the board or attacking White...

pawn makes a capture, the file from which the pawn departed is used to identify the pawn. For example, exd5 (pawn on the e-file captures the piece on...

have to be a previously captured piece. Promotion is mandatory when moving to the last rank; the pawn cannot remain as a pawn. Promotion to a queen is...

chess, a passed pawn is a pawn with no opposing pawns to prevent it from advancing to the eighth rank; i.e. there are no opposing pawns in front of it...

versus pawn (with both sides having no other pieces except the kings) is usually an easy win for the side with the queen. However, if the pawn has advanced...

Rook position played by Black that captures White's side pawn on 34. (Cf. the Double Static Rook Side Pawn Capture opening.) It was seen up until the...

allow rook pawn exchanges and/or bishop exchanges in the major Double Static Rook openings. In contrast to Double Wing Attack and Side Pawn Capture openings...

(Japanese: 銀), and pawns (Japanese: 歩). Typically, they also require moving the king from its starting position – often to the left or right side of the board...

the same side of the board – the stronger side should try to create a passed pawn by exchanging pawns Usually, endings with pawns on both sides of the board...

the pawn diagram, if the pawn on e4 were to capture a black piece on f5, then the pawn would retain the option to move to f7. If the black pawn on c7...

rule in chess states that a player can claim a draw if no capture has been made and no pawn has been moved in the last fifty moves (for this purpose a...

White. Nowadays, it is almost always used in combination with the Side Pawn Capture, Rook-85 strategy, so it has become a castling strategy used exclusively...

Rook openings are below. Double Static Rook types: Fortress (矢倉) Side Pawn Capture (横歩取り) Bishop Exchange (角換わり) Double Wing Attack (相掛かり) Snowroof (雁木)...

defending side's pawn must be securely blockaded for the attacking side to win. If the side with the knights carelessly captures the other side's extra material...

the stronger side has even a single pawn, an extra knight should give them an easy win. A bishop can trap (although it cannot then capture) a knight on...

squares are vacant. Pawns cannot move backwards. A pawn, unlike other pieces, captures differently from how it moves. A pawn can capture an enemy piece on...

The Poisoned Pawn Variation is any of several series of opening moves in chess in which a pawn is said to be "poisoned" because its capture can result in...

(assuming that the black king cannot capture the pawn). The key squares are relative to the position of the pawn. Whether or not the white king can reach...

two men coming up on the sides of the person to be seized, and taking hold of his arms to carry him off. Pawns never capture diagonally, only horizontally...

for the Side Pawn Capture, Bishop-33 variations. 1995 (23rd Annual Shogi Awards) Makoto Nakahara for the Nakahara variation of Side Pawn Capture and the...