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| | Pawn (chess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Each player begins the game with eight pawns, one on each square of the second rank from the view of the player. | | | The capturing pawn moves into the empty square over which the moving pawn moved, and the moving pawn is removed from the board. | | | Finally, a pawn that advances all the way to the opposite side of the board (the opposing player's first rank) is promoted to another piece of that player's choice. |
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| | Pawn (chess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Each player begins the game with eight pawns, one on each square of the second rank from the view of the player. | | | The capturing pawn moves into the empty square over which the moving pawn moved, and the moving pawn is removed from the board. | | | Normally a pawn moves by advancing a single square, but the first time each pawn is moved from its initial position, it has the option to advance two squares. |
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| | Backward pawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In this diagram, which is taken from the game Akiba Rubinstein-Georg Salwe (Lodz 1908), the Black pawn on the c6 square is backward. | | | Pieces can become weak when they are devoted to protecting a backward pawn, like Black's queen and rook later in the game. | | | In chess, a backward pawn is a pawn that is behind the pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and that cannot easily be advanced. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_pawn
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| | gnuchess.txt |
| | Passed pawns are given a bonus for increasing rank which is a function of stage of the game and of whether the opponent blocks or attacks one or more squares in front of the pawn or if the opponents king is in the square of the pawn. | | | Backward pawns (defined simply as not being defended by a pawn with the square in front also not defended by a a pawn) are penalized 6 points. | | | Pawn Advancement in the centre is given a bonus of about 4 points per rank in the opening increasing to about 8 points per rank in the ending. |
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http://alumni.imsa.edu/~stendahl/comp/txt/gnuchess.txt
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| | Chess Glossary |
| | A game which the position is obstructed by blocking Pawns. | | | This term describes a Pawn which has passed the central line of the chessboard which is between the fourth and fifth ranks. | | | This term describes the situation where the advance of a Pawn is prevented by an opponent's piece directly in front of the frustrated Pawn. |
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http://www.chess-poster.com/english/glossary.htm
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| | Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - The pawns |
| | Backward pawns may be vulnerable to being exploited through bring attacked and captured by the opposing player. | | | A pawn is one of the three multilinear playing objects on the chessboard. | | | Pawn couples, isolated pawn couples, and hanging pawns all can present significant attacking and positional superiority possibilities for the player, and present the opposing player with significant tactical and strategy considerations that may force or cause lost tempi and deviation from the opposing player's development and creation of pawn structure. |
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http://chess.markalowery.net/pawns/pawns.html
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| | Endgame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A general rule is that if the weaker side's king can get to the queening square of the pawn, the game is a draw and otherwise it is a win, but there are many exceptions. | | | Rooks should almost always be placed behind passed pawns, whether one's own or the opponent's (the Tarrasch rule). | | | If the pawn is blocked by a knight behind the Troitzky line, the knights have a long theoretical win. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame
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| | FIDE Online. FIDE Handbook: Chess rules |
| | If the player has released from his hand the pawn that has reached the promotion square, the move is not yet made, but the player no longer has the right to play the pawn to another square. | | | A pawn attacking a square crossed by an opponent`s pawn which has advanced two squares in one move from its original square may capture this opponent`s pawn as though the latter had been moved only one square. | | | When a pawn reaches the rank furthest from its starting position it must be exchanged as part of the same move for a new queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same colour. |
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http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=EE101
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| | Kid Chess Academy: Glossary of Chess Terms |
| | A pawn which on its first move advances two squares and passes an enemy pawn on an adjacent file that has advanced to its 5th rank, may be captured by that enemy pawn as if the first pawn had moved only one square. | | | That is, you can open a game by moving your king pawn two squares and get to the e4 square in one move. | | | Pawn Center : Situation when the center is occupied by a player's pawns. |
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http://www.kidchess.com/glossary/abridged_glossary.htm
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| | Glossary of chess terms |
| | The idea is that the overprotected pawn or square may be causing considerable problems for the opponent, who would be unwise to try to break the strong point, because he would release the latent power of the protecting pieces. | | | Pawns based in the centre of the board, primarily on d4, e4, d5 or e5. | | | These friendly pawns are in turn restricted by enemy pawns or pieces, thereby being unable to vacate squares for the bishop. |
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http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/glossary.html
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| | Chess Glossary |
| | A gambit usually involves the sacrifice of a pawn or minor piece when a game is in a complex phase such as the opening or middlegame. | | | An isolated pawn is consider a fundamental weakness in a chess position because it can be attacked. | | | An isolated or blockaded pawn, lack of space, bad bishop, or any other positional flaw that increases losing chances are examples of weaknesses. |
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http://www.logicalchess.com/info/reference/glossary.html
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| | Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - pawn Chains |
| | A reverse or backward pawn chain is usually much weaker than a forward V-shape pawn chain because if the base pawn falls to capture this opens up two of the player's pawns (the next ones in the chain) to being attacked and captured, creating significant positional inferiority and double difficulties for the player. | | | In addition to single diagonal pawn chains, usually games develop where one or both players have multiple pawns chains on the board. | | | With a reverse or backward V-shape pawn chain when the apex pawn is to the rear (i.e., toward the player's back rank), then it also is the base pawn in the chains. |
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http://www.markalowery.net/Chess/pawns/pawnchains.html
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| | Chess Terms Dictionary |
| | Pawn storms are most effective when the Kings have castled on opposite sides of the board. | | | An isolated pawn is considered a weakness because it is often a target for attack, as it has no friendly pawn protectors. | | | On the first move of each pawn, a player has the option of advancing that pawn one or two square. |
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http://www.geocities.com/allentownchess/terms.html
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| | Chess Term Glossary |
| | A game which the position is obstructed by blocking Pawns. | | | A move is given by the name of the piece or Pawn moving, followed by the square to which it moves. | | | Pawn moves are designated by the starting square an the destination square (e.g. |
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http://www.chess.jpkoonce.net/ChessGlossary.html
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| | Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - The pawns |
| | Pawn couples, isolated pawn couples, and hanging pawns all can present significant attacking and positional superiority possibilities for the player, and present the opposing player with significant tactical and strategy considerations that may force or cause lost tempi and deviation from the opposing player's development and creation of pawn structure. | | | A pawn is one of the three multilinear playing objects on the chessboard. | | | In determining the strength or weakness of a player's pawn structure, one takes into consideration what advances and captures he or she made with the pawns, and what defensive, attacking, trapping, capturing, and blocking has been created or the possibilities which have been created by the player against the opposing player. |
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http://chess.markalowery.net/pawns/pawns.html
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| | The Pawn |
| | This rule applies to each Pawn, on their first move, not the first move of the game and can be invoked any time you please, but only on the Pawn's first move. | | | The e-4 Pawn cannot move forward because is blocked by the black e-5 Pawn nor he can move to d-5 since it is an illegal move. | | | So, an interesting case came up where when the Pawn reached the 8th rank, it wouldn't be able to move anymore for the rest of the game. |
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http://www.chess-poster.com/english/chesmayne/the_pawn.htm
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| | Chess Guide > Pawn |
| | The capturing pawn moves into the empty square over which the moving pawn moved, and the moving pawn is removed from the board. | | | Normally the pawn moves by advancing a single square, but the first time each pawn is moved from its initial position, it has the option to advance two squares. | | | The pawn is immediately (before the opposing player's next move) replaced by a queen, rook, bishop, or knight of the same color. |
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http://chess.go.ro/rules/movements/pawn.html
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| | Chess Tips1-January-1997) |
| | PAWN Place on a strong square, or place on a square it is difficult or undesirable for a pawn to reach. | | | Pawns may become doubled, or undoubled, isolated or rejoined, space may be gained or lost, weak squares may be created or removed. | | | BLOCKADE SQUARE The square in front of an isolated pawn is a strong/weak square and can be called the blockade square. |
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| | US Chess Federation: |
| | On its turn the White pawn may capture the Black one on the square marked with the X. If the White player does not exercise this option immediately before playing some other move the Black pawn is safe from "en passant" capture for the rest of the game. | | | The squares on which these pawns may capture are indicated by an X. If a pawn advances all the way to the opposite end of the board, it is immediately "promoted" to another piece, usually a Queen. | | | Chess is a game for two players, one with the "White" pieces and one with the "Black" pieces. |
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| | isolated pawn: Information From Answers.com |
| | The weakness of such a pawn consists in its having to be defended and the weak square infront of it (ie d5 for white) being of particular importance. | | | The second reason is that the square immediately in front of the isolated pawn is weak because it is immune to attack by a pawn. | | | In this diagram, the pawn on the e5 square is isolated. |
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| | Lesson_5.doc |
| | Backward pawn A pawn that is on a file next to a pawn of the same color but is one rank behind it. | | | The backward pawn cant advance because an opposing pawn guards the square in front it. | | | Pawn Structure If your opponent has weak pawns, trade pieces and head for the end game. |
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http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/DubuqueChess/HTMLobj-169/Lesson_5.doc
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| | The Pawn |
| | Isolated passed pawns can be quite valuable in the endgame, so keep this in mind during the earlier game when you may be tempted to think "it's just a pawn," or it may come back to haunt you. | | | Pawns are the least valuable piece in the game, usually. | | | Another problem a lot of players have is that they are too willing to push many of their pawns out into the middle of the board. |
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| | The Pawn |
| | This rule applies to each Pawn, on their first move, not the first move of the game and can be invoked any time you please, but only on the Pawn's first move. | | | The e-4 Pawn cannot move forward because is blocked by the black e-5 Pawn nor he can move to d-5 since it is an illegal move. | | | Isolated PAs (:is-PA) cannot be defended by neighborly PAs and are easily captured by your opponent. |
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http://www.chess-poster.com/english/chesmayne/the_pawn.htm
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| | Glossary |
| | It was introduced because when a pawn landed on the fifth rank and an enemy pawn used the two square move, it could dodge the fight of the enemy pawn which was deemed unfair. | | | A square in a player's position which cannot be defended by a pawn and thus is vulnerable. | | | When referring to a player's style, it means that the player bases his play on a full pawn center. |
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| | Chess Variant Applets |
| | Pawns may move, but not capture, one square sideways. | | | The king's pawn is replaced by a unit which mimics the move of any friendly unit on the board. | | | Pawns can be made to explode, and always explode when captured. |
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| | Middle Game - ChessWiki |
| | Connected pawns Pawns that exist in adjacent files so that they may be lined up "connected" either at the same rank or a rank one ahead of the other or one behind the other. | | | Passed pawn A passed pawn has no pawn blocking has advanced far enough or exists in a state that no pawn can block it and no pawn is in front of it in an adjacent square, so that it may not be captured by another pawn. | | | Blocked pawn A pawn that may not move because of another pawn sitting in front of it or a piece parked in front of the pawn, preventing movement. |
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| | Mark Lowery's Exciting World of Chess - pawn Chains 2 |
| | Identify all the pawn chains and the types that exist on the board at this point in the game. | | | for a game example of pawn chains, passed pawns, and pawn storm combination. | | | White has 5 two-pawn chains (a3-b4; b4-c3; c3-d4; f2- g3; and g3-h2) with three connected pawn chains (2 forward and 1 backward): the two forward pawn chains being (a3-b4-c3; fd-g3-h2); the backward pawn chain (b4-c3-d4). |
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| | Game 7 Leko vs |
| | A pawn on the d4 square and a bishop on the c4 square. | | | Leko opened game 7 with white buy pushing both his d4 and c4 pawns. | | | IM Mark Diesen and Chess FMer calls the isolated pawn a Dr. Jeckle and Mr. |
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| | Improve Your Chess! Isolated Pawns: The Good and the Bad |
| | Unquestionable authority over the square in front of the pawn is an imperative. | | | The conclusion is self-evident: a central isolated pawn must be blockaded. | | | Understanding pawn play is one of the most important and often most difficult aspects of chess. |
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