The first pawn can take the advancing pawn en passant, as if it had advanced only one square. An en passant capture must be made then or not at all. Only pawns can be captured en passant. The last unique feature of the pawn occurs if it reaches the end of a file; it must then ...
beat GM Richard Rapport to take 9th place and $15,000. The Finals of the 2025 Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam begin on Sunday, April 13, at 7 a.m. ET / 13:00 CEST / 4:30 p.m. IST. Nakamura was the only player to win the classical game with Black. Photo: Lennart Ootes/Free...
Turing’s evaluation function was dominated by determining which side had more pieces in various future positions. But Shannon suggested that each position could be weighed using positional criteria, including the condition ofpawnsand their control of the centre squares, the mobility of the other piec...
Initially each player has one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, which have different types of moves according to kind. The object is to checkmate the opponent's king [C13: from Old French esches, plural of eschec check (at chess); see check] ...
After Black's last move of e7-e5, White may capture the e-pawn on e6 for one move only! Promotion So far the pawn doesn't seem too powerful, right? Well, pawns have the unique ability to be able topromoteinto a knight, bishop, rook or queen! If a white pawn reaches the eighth...
Pawns Pawns can only move forward one square at a time in Chess, except on their first turn when they can move ahead two. However, they cannot move forward into a square that is occupied by another piece. Instead, they capture by moving forward one tile in a diagonal fashion. ...
Black is a pawn up, ahs the pair of bishops, and at first only the doubled c-pawns can be counted as obvious compensation. But there is something very inflexible about blacks pawn-structure. Its solid, but very imobile. Basically white can prepare an attack on the kingside, and unless ...
It applies a parallel search on multiprocessor architectures and implements pawn blockage detection that not only detects blockages in pawn endgame but also identifies other pieces on the board. The latest version has been tuned deeply, especially in the context of passing pawns and mobility. Severa...
Checkmate With King And Queen Frequently,pawnsarepromotedtoqueensduring endgames. For this reason, you should know how to perform this mate. With the help of your king, you can checkmate your opponent's monarch once you force it to one of the edges of the board. The "boxing method" for...
There are quite a few suitable vehicles for this approach, mainly closed openings in which manoeuvres take place behind lines of pawns. One good example is the Eastern Clamp Sicilian in which White meets 1.e4 c5 with 2.d3 followed by 3.f4. Another is the Old Indian Defence (1.d4 Nf6...