Pawns

Doubled pawns are substantially weaker than pawns which are side by side, because they cannot defend each other, they usually cannot both be defended by adjacent pawns, and the front pawn blocks the advance of the back one.

Players can also customize their Pawns, companion characters that will follow them through the campaign, and the custom Pawns of other players will occasionally appear in the game world.

Also the black pawns on f2 and g2 cannot be captured by d2-h2, because there is no space in between the two pawns which would allow the Long Leaper to make two separate jumps.

By George Dekle Sr. * McCooey's hexagonal chess : Chess on the same hexagonal board as Gliński's hex chess, but using a different starting array, seven pawns instead of nine, and pawns capture forward diagonally.

Depending on the position, tripled pawns may be more or less valuable than two pawns which are side by side.

For example, king and pawn endgames involve only kings and pawns on one or both sides and the task of the stronger side is to promote one of the pawns.

It is often brought to the center of the board where it can protect its own pawns, attack the pawns of opposite color, and hinder movement of the opponent's king.

It is rare for a player to have three pawns in a file, i.e. tripled pawns.

Pawns other than rook pawns (those on the a- and h- files ) can also be used to fork by attacking two enemy pieces diagonally—one to the left, the other to the right.

Polgár was playing an endgame of knight against knight and two connected passed pawns of Alexander Grischuk, but she was able to eliminate both pawns. citation citation In October 2007, Polgár played in the Blindfold World Cup in Bilbao, Spain.

This allows the player to control squares of both colors, allows the bishop to move freely among the pawns, and helps fix enemy pawns on squares on which they can be attacked by the bishop.

What sets Rococo apart from Baroque the most is the way the pawns work; they are called cannonball pawns and move like a king, stepping 1 square in all directions, or leap over any adjacent piece (friend or foe).

When this happens, pawns moved to squares of the other color do not block the bishop, and enemy pawns directly facing them are stuck on the vulnerable color.

Without en passant, a pawn could simply march past squares guarded by opposing pawns; en passant preserves the restrictive ability of pawns that have reached the fifth rank.

But truth be said, Africa’s leaders are the pawns.

Depending on how you look at it, smaller countries can be said to have been either wilfully used as pawns, or just inadvertently caught between the powers, as collateral damage.

Having little interest in the item, she pawns it off on her conspiracy-theorist brother.

Simply put, they're not pawns and tools who just have someone's mission to accomplish, they want to replace the Masters and know how to project their weaknesses to scare them.

Still, analysts say, Iran has made a practice of using Westerners as pawns.

The Stromwyns, the Hand, and ReCID will all be used as pawns in LOLtron's plan for world domination.