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Pawn

Moves forward one square, captures diagonally, except on its first move, when it may move two squares.

History & Origins

Pawn (German: Bauer)

Symbol
P
Notation
mfWcfFimfnD
Value
1
Promotes To
Any captured piece / Any piece
Aliases
  • Feudal Lord Sittuyin (Burmese Chess)
  • Pawn 21st Century Chess Advancing Chess All-Around Allstars All-Around Allstars II Amazon Army Avian Airforce Balbo's Chess Beautiful Beasts Bent Bozos Bird's Chess Capablanca Chess Carrera's Chess Castellum Chess Chadarangam (Telugu chess) Chancellor Chess Chess Chexx Chess Colorbound Clobberers Colorbound Clobberers II Coronation Chess Courier Chess Crushing Conquerers Daring Dragons Double Chess Drunken Nights Embassy Chess Fearful Fairies Forward FIDEs Frog Fairies Gemini Chess Gothic Chess Grand Chess Great Chess (Tamerlane's Chess) Great Chess Completed Grotesque Chess Halcon Hunter Chess Hoppel-Poppel Iron Guard Chess Janus Chess Jumpers Chess Ladorean Chess Marsupial Chess Meticulous Mashers Modern Chess Monster Chess Musketeer Chess Neo-chess Nutty Knights Pawn Horde Chess Pizza Kings Remarkable Rookies Schoolbook Chess Seirawan Chess Semi-queen Chess Semi-queen Chess Extended Shinobi Silly Sliders Sort of Almost Chess Tamerlane II The Fabulous FIDEs Tutti-frutti Chess Univers Chess Weak Chess Wildebeest Chess
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P
Move Only
Capture Only
Lame (Leaper)
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