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pawn

Chess piece

Also known as chess pawn · P

Instance of: chess term
Subclass of: chess piece

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The pawn is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It can move one vacant square directly forward, or one or two vacant squares directly forward on its first move, and can capture one square diagonally forward. Each player begins a game with eight pawns, one on each square of their second rank. The white pawns start on a2 through h2, while the black pawns start on a7 through h7.

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Unicode character: ♙ color: white · statement is subject of: ♙
♟ color: black · statement is subject of: ♟
Sport: chess
Portable Game Notation: none
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Opposite of: non-pawn chess piece
Different from: Bauer criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Bauer

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