Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Pawn Captures Uniquely

Marble Chess Board
The Chess Pawn's moves are only forward, never does it move backwards. Pawns can not move out of their straight forward line except to capture. All the other chess pieces capture the same way they move, but the Pawn is an exception.

The Pawn never moves backwards, but to capture it moves forward - diagonally. It can only move diagonally one square, but that is the only way it captures. It can not capture moving straight ahead. The Pawn is a sneaky chess piece and if you are not watching, it can catch you unawares. Pawns are known for winning chess games

Moving forward diagonally means moving to the right or to the left. It does not matter which way, the Pawn can only go one of those ways in a move though. It can not move forward and diagonally, it has to choose to do one or the other.

 The diagram on the left shows the Pawn before it captures. See how the White Pawn can capture Black Rook on the right side of the diagram.

On the left side of the diagram neither Pawn can capture the other because they are straight on. Neither of them can move anywhere.

In the center of the diagram, the Black Pawn can capture the White Queen.

Remember the Black Pawns are advancing "down" the diagram, and the White Pawns are moving "up" the diagram.

In capturing, the Pawn will remove the Rook from the game and place itself on the same square the Rook had been on. The Pawn has to be able to land on the same square as the Rook is on. A Pawn can not capture if it can not land on the square the opposing chess piece is on, in one move.

The second diagram shows all the positions of the chess pieces after the Pawns have captured.

Explaining how the Pawn moves ends this section explaining how each of the chessmen move and capture. This is basic and simply explained. We have explained how the chess board is set up. Next we will illustrate how to win a chessboard game.


MarbleChessBoard.com

White pawn captures black rook








Black pawn captures white queen

Neither black or white pawn can move

2 comments:

  1. You really have described about the movement of chess pawn in the chess board.It has an unique rule.Keep up the good work you are doing here. Thank you for sharing such a useful post.

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