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	Pawn (chess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pawns are differentiated by the files in which they currently stand, for example one speaks of "white's f-pawn".
		Pawns are the source of nearly all of the strategic depth of chess.
		A pawn which can't be blocked or captured by enemy pawns in its advance to promotion is a passed pawn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pawn_(chess) (1227 words)

	Chess - Simple English Wikipedia
		A pawn is placed in each square on the second row away from each player at the beginning of a game, right in front of all of their other pieces, so each player begins with eight pawns.
		Very often, the first move is that the white player moves his "king's pawn" (that is, the pawn in front of the king) two spaces forward.
		A pawn can capture an enemy piece which is on the square left or right of the square straight in front of it.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess (1340 words)

	Pawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Idiomatically, an exploited person or character, considered expendable (from the use of the chess piece), he was only a pawn in her game
		Pawn is a term in Leetspeak (1337) descending from (Own-pwn-pown-pawn), a variation of pwn
		Pawn (programming language), a programming language that can be embedded in various things.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pawn (175 words)

	IBM Research \| Deep Blue \| Overview
		The form of chess notation by using a combination of letters and numbers - a to h and 1 to 8 - which denote the 64 squares on a board.
		Chess does not have referees or umpires, it has Arbiters for the enforcement of the rules, and Directors for the organisation of tournaments (a distinction recognized in America).
		A pawn which cannot be guarded by a pawn, or which cannot advance to such a position.
	www.research.ibm.com /deepblue/reference/html/i.2.html (2084 words)

	Chess Glossary
		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.
		An opening maneuver in which at least a pawn is offered in return for a strong position, a chance to attack or gaining tempo which permits development.
	www.chess-poster.com /english/glossary.htm (4360 words)

	The Chess Page
		One of the general features of chess in the far east is that draws by repetition are not allowed; the player first repeating his moves must vary the pattern, even if the variance is to his disadvantage.
		Chess in Burma, called Sittuyin, is unusual in that the initial arrangement of the major pieces on the board are the opening moves of the game.
		Chess reached its present form in the 15th and 16th centuries, when the queen was endowed with her sweeping powers, and when castling was introduced to the game.
	www.stmoroky.com /games/chess/chess.htm (3464 words)

	Chess Terms Dictionary
		An isolated pawn is considered a weakness because it is often a target for attack, as it has no friendly pawn protectors.
		Pawn Storm: The advance of two or more connected pawns for the intent of an attack on the King, to promote one of the pawns, or to restrict the movement of the enemy pieces.
		Pawn storms are most effective when the Kings have castled on opposite sides of the board.
	www.geocities.com /allentownchess/terms.html (4089 words)

	The Pushed Pawn Chess for the Community
		In chess, when a player's king is directly attacked by one or more of the opponent's pieces, the player is said to be in 'check'.
		Chess is one of the world's most popular games; it has been described not only as a game but also as an art or science.
		Chess is sometimes seen as an abstract wargame; as a "mental martial art", and teaching chess has been advocated as a way of enhancing mental prowess.
	www.pushedpawn.org (486 words)

	OMEGA CHESS - Rules (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		All Chess pieces (including the Omega Chess pieces) capture an opponent's piece by landing on the square occupied by the opponent's piece.
		When a Pawn reaches the far side of the board (the 10th rank) it is immediately promoted to any piece except a King (generally to a Queen).
		If a Pawn moves two or three squares initially and passes an opposing Pawn on the fourth or fifth rank, the Pawn may be captured en passant.
	www.omegachess.com /rules.htm (1229 words)

	Chess Variant Applets
		Pawns can be made to explode, and always explode when captured.
		The king's pawn is replaced by a unit which mimics the move of any friendly unit on the board.
		Hero Chess II The queen is replaced by the hero.
	www.pathguy.com /chess/ChessVar.htm (2750 words)

	Problem I - The Pawn Chess
		Consider the following mini-version of chess: We have a 4x4 chessboard, with four white pawns on the first rank (bottom line in the input) and four fl pawns on the last rank.
		The goal is for the player to get one of his pawns to the other end of the board (last rank for the white player, first rank for the fl player), or to stalemate his opponent.
		That is, a pawn may either move one step forward (toward the opposite rank), assuming that this square is empty.
	acm.uva.es /p/v108/10838.html (360 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Pawn Power in Chess: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Emphasizes the role of the proper use of the pawn in chess strategy, discusses how it interacts with the other pieces, and describes specific formations that employ it.
		Explores how the pawn structure provides the basis for the standard themes in each type of position and how it should influence planning and strategy in the handling of the middlegame resulting from various openings.
		Gems of wisdom regarding when the pawn structure is favorable to each piece, how the pieces relate to the structure, and initiating changes in the pawn structure are scattered throughout the text.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486264866 (758 words)

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		A Pawn captures by moving one square ahead and diagonally.
		It was invented in 1953, and appeared in Boyer's second anthology of chess variants in 1954.
		Pawns may be promoted to a King.") (history "This is one of the most popular chess variants, currently being played and studied a lot in the Italian organization AISE (Associazione Italiana Scacchi Eterodossi.
	www.chessvariants.com /programs.dir/zillions/mobilepawnchess.zrf (2701 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pawn Power in Chess: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dynamic isolated pawn structure, defensive value of the doubled pawn, rigid pawn structure versus piece mobility, white and fl square control, compensation and how to meet the minority attack.
		I often felt before reading this book that chess was like a foreign language to me. I heard with envy that Reti said about Capablanca that "chess was his mother tongue." I wanted that so badly, but I still felt, no matter how much I studied, that I was missing something essential about chess.
		This book, Pawn Power in Chess, changed that for me. The more I study this book (which has been off and on for about 5 years), the more I learn about chess, and the more I "feel" chess on an intuitive level.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486264866 (1037 words)

	Amazon.com: Pawn Structure Chess (Chess): Books: Andrew Soltis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some 250 years ago, the great Philidor wrote, "The pawns are the soul of chess." Although that statement is perhaps the most common cliche in the literature of the game, it is too often misunderstood.
		Pawns are usually considered weak because of their limited range of movement.
		But the pawns' restricted mobility is precisely what makes them so important strategically: they form a semi-permanent structure -- often called a "pawn skeleton" -- that establishes the territorial lines of the coming battle and thus the nature of the battle itself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812925297?v=glance (1811 words)

	Chess Question... Pawn to Queen! - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums
		In my own Chess program I force promotions to Queen, mainley because I was burned out by the time I had added all of the bells and whistles to speed up the search.
		Chess problems are cool too, and they often exploit this type of rules.
		For example, it is crucial to promote his pawn in knight because if the position is "locked", only a piece which can jump the pawns wall can make troubles to the opponent.
	www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=163596 (2066 words)

	The Chess Wanderer
		To me, the beauty of chess is that no matter how bad you are you can always find someone just as bad as you if you use the rating system.
		My chess coach once told me that he doesn't believe in reading annotated master games because he feels it is better to gain what you can from going through a game than trying to understand what someone else is telling you.
		I've downloaded the next book, "Logical Chess Move by Move", into my Palm Pilot so I can go through the games first, without annotations, and refer to the book when there are moves that I get stuck on, or don't understand.
	pawnsensei.blogspot.com (2874 words)

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		Pawns have slightly more complicated movements, and are the exception to the attacking rule.
		To determine which of the chess players in the population is most "fit," a function to evaluate their fitness is required.
		This is a typical chess endgame strategy which can be very important in getting to the right square at the right time (the "indirect" triangle method takes an extra move more than the direct method to get to the same square).
	www.cs.utah.edu /~wyman/classes/ML_proj/paper.html (9603 words)

	Chess Rules for the Movement of the Pawn
		Pawns cannot move backward or sideways, but must move straight ahead unless they are taking another piece.
		The exception is the first time a pawn is moved, it may move forward two squares as long as there are no obstructing pieces.
		In the case of a capture the pawn replaces the captured piece and the captured piece is removed from play.
	www.conservativebookstore.com /chess/pawns.htm (369 words)

	Chess Rules Index Page
		Chess has long been considered the sport of kings and aristocrats.
		This site is dedicated to publishing the official rules of Chess in a graphical format that can be easily understood by the beginning chess player and referred to on occasion by the more experienced player.
		Starting Chess, by Harriet Castor is a great first book for any child wanting to learn to play chess.
	www.conservativebookstore.com /chess (422 words)

	RedHotPawn.com - Play free online chess
		No downloads are required to play online chess, and it is completely free to sign up and play.Take a quick tour, or click the register button below to get started.
		Chess clans allowing team play in challenge and league formats.
		Red Hot Pawn is the home of Rival Chess.
	www.redhotpawn.com (322 words)

	Amazon.com: Pawn Power in Chess: Books: Hans Kmoch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book will give you a firm grasp of how to play the pawns in chess, and it will give you ideas about what your plan should be based on the pawn structure.
		It's not an easy read, but if you are past the basics in chess, but not yet a master, and you seriously want to improve your chess, then get this book, sit down, dig through the material, and STUDY this book.
		In short, it is a complete and rigorous treatment of the pawn in chess: its peculiar features as a maneuvering unit, how it interacts with other pieces, how groups of them are utilized in the context of a game.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486264866?v=glance (2150 words)

	Chess symbols in Unicode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following are symbols of chess pieces in Unicode.
		If you cannot see any chess symbols in the above table, take a look at the picture below, where they are depicted using two fonts (Arial Unicode MS and Tahoma).
		This page was last modified 03:07, 1 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode (84 words)

	Checker-Pawn Chess
		FIDE Chess, except that the Pawns move like Checker pieces.
		When a Pawn reaches the other side of the board, the owning player has the choice of promoting it to either a Checkers-King or a Chess-Queen.
		A Pawn may make multiple captures in a single move like a Checker piece, but unlike a Checker piece, is not forced to capture.
	www.chessvariants.com /diffmove.dir/checkerpawn.html (211 words)

	Chess openings: Queen's Pawn Game (A40) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Usually the knight will not stay there when the d pawn advances.
		The main idea is to show the whites pawns are over extended instead of powerful and will be good targets for fl.
		If you want to discuss chess in general, or this site, check out the Kibitzer's Café.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessopening?eco=A40 (902 words)

	Online Chess Blog - All about Chess
		your handling of the Pawns, is one of the keys to success in the middle game.
		After Potemkin's 10th move, his Queen Pawn is isolated and Alekhine starts putting pressure on the weak pawn.
		"For want of protection, a Pawn was lost; for want of a Pawn, the center was lost; for want of the center, the position was lost; for want of position, the game was lost." - Richard Roberts.
	satishtalim.blogspot.com /2005/11/chess-middle-game-pawn-play.html (221 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Pawn Structure Chess: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If it was going to be a toss up between these two books 'Pawn Structure Chess' is the superior choice by far.
		On a more loftier note i'd like to point out that 'The Mammoth Book of Chess' would be a very good buy for chess enthusiasts and was winner of the BCF book of the year award.
		The author classifies the different pawn skeletons typically encountered into similar types or families, and explores the most commonly encountered plans adopted by either side arising from those structures.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812925297 (736 words)

	Chess - MSN Games - Free Online Games
		The object is to checkmate your opponent, that is, to leave his King with no way to avoid capture.
		If you know what moves each piece is permitted, you know how to play Chess -- essentially.
		Of course, volumes have been written on Chess strategy.
	zone.msn.com /chess (205 words)

	Chess - Wikimedia Commons
		A translucent chess set arranged for visual effect.
		It is unlikely that a real chess match would unfold into such a perfectly symmetrical configuration.
		Example board showing the possible moves of a bishop: any number of squares in any diagonal direction.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Chess (85 words)

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