The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one square directly forward, it may move two squares directly...
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the pawn when recording chess positions in English; a lowercase p is typically used for a Black pawn. Also used for the pawn when recording chess moves...
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In chess, promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with...
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contains chess piece figurines. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Each piece type (other than pawns) is...
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and it can be one of six types: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, or pawn. Chess sets generally come with sixteen pieces of each color. Additional pieces...
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can help escort pawns to promotion, attack enemy pawns, protect other pieces, and restrict the movement of the enemy king. Not all chess games reach an...
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King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. e4 It is the most popular opening move in chess, followed by 1.d4, the Queen's Pawn Game...
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Chess is a board game for two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi...
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extra time on the chess clock, and special conditions (such as requiring the odds-giver to deliver checkmate with a specified piece or pawn). Various permutations...
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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...
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no role in the rules of chess but are useful as an aid to assessing a position. The best known system assigns 1 point to a pawn, 3 points to a knight or...
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En passant (redirect from En passant (chess))
In chess, en passant (French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that...
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In 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...
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pawn of each color in either hand; the other player chooses a hand to open and receives the color of the piece that is revealed. Each type of chess piece...
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In chess, a backward pawn is a pawn that is behind all pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and cannot be safely advanced. In the diagram, the...
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The Queen's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. d4 It is the second-most popular opening move after 1.e4 (King's Pawn Game). This...
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Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's...
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minor pieces by approximately a pawn. Two rooks are generally considered to be worth slightly more than a queen (see chess piece relative value). Winning...
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and pawn versus rook endgame". Outline of chess: Chess strategy Chess tactics Chess terminology School of chess Silman, "How to Reassess Your Chess" "Positional...
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Sicilian Defence (redirect from B52 (chess opening))
Italian chess players Giulio Polerio and Gioachino Greco. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. By advancing the c-pawn two squares...
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White Chess Queen ♛ U+265B Black Chess Queen 🨁 U+1FA01 Neutral Chess Queen Eight queens puzzle Queen versus pawn endgame Queen's graph Staunton chess set...
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Look up pawn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pawn most often refers to: Pawn (chess), the weakest and most numerous chess piece in the game Pawnbroker...
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to eight available moves at once. Knights and pawns are the only pieces that can be moved in the chess starting position. Knights and bishops, also known...
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Zvjaginsev FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 In the middlegame, a player with only one bishop should generally place friendly pawns on squares of the color...
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Queen's Gambit (category 15th century in chess)
the Aleppo Gambit in his honor. During the early period of modern chess, queen pawn openings were not in fashion, and the Queen's Gambit did not become...
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Zugzwang (redirect from Squeeze (chess))
promotes a pawn first and then checkmates with 3.hxg5 h4 4.g6 h3 5.g7 h2 6.g8=Q h1=Q 7.Qg7#. Joseph Bertin refers to zugzwang in The Noble Game of Chess (1735)...
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openings. A simple descriptive categorization of the chess opening is King's Pawn Openings, Queen's Pawn Openings, and Others. Since these categories are...
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of the queens at the beginning of the game. The pawn's two-step initial move is absent in Indian chess; thus, the en passant capture is also absent. Normal...
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a game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least...
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cell (or "hex") usually mid-tone. The usual set of chess pieces is increased by one bishop and one pawn. The board has 11 files, marked by letters a–l (letter...
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