The first and arguably cornerstone chess piece is the pawn!
The pawn is the chess piece that initiates a great majority of games! (unless you claim to be eccentric and move the knight). It is the back bone of your structural piece integrity and is what makes or breaks your game!
Initially moving pawns is easy, but what is difficult is utilizing them to create an attack! Many assume pieces are only important, but they are essentially useless without the power of these round warriors!
The pawn from the starting square square is able to move one or two sqaures, but afterwards is only able to move one square.
The pawn is NOT able to go backwards, but the pawn controls one tile on the forward diagonals.
A pawn is able to move diagonally only if a piece comes near its controlled squares, in which it captures the piece and moves
diagonally by one.
The pawn also has a sneaky rule that only a hanful of people know about...
En Passant!:
Sorry, I had to do it! ;)
If you want to learn more about the Pawn, watch this video by chess.com!
Or click on the link below!
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