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Eurasian Pawn piece. A hybrid European and Asian Pawn.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Carlos Cetina wrote on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 09:52 PM UTC:Good ★★★★

Your idea is good and would be worth to try it in the context you are mentioning of larger boards, particularly in any variant on a 10x10 board.

I'm now focused on trying to moving as much as I can in the hard and bumpy road that leads to the utopia called Universal Chess, and think the Eurasian Pawn may perfectly well be included in the next 3rd stage of such a road.

OK. I'm doing it rightnow.

💡📝Rich Hutnik wrote on Sat, Oct 6, 2012 01:36 AM UTC:

The idea is to add another way to control area on the board, while preserving pawn structure, or making pawn structure able to be broken (as opposed to other approaches to give the pawn lateral movement).  Maybe it has very limited usage, but it is there for consideration.  My feeling is a board with an odd number of rows could benefit from it.

Jeremy Good wrote on Sun, Nov 30, 2014 10:21 PM UTC:

To be clear: This pawn can capture forward or diagonally forward but can only move orthogonally forward if it is not capturing. It can not capture sideways. Correct?

💡📝Rich Hutnik wrote on Sun, Nov 30, 2014 10:52 PM UTC:

Jeremy, that is pretty much correct.  It is taking a FIDE Chess Pawn and allowing it to capture a piece in front of it.  In some games, the Pawn would only be allowed to advance one space forward.  There is no lateral movement, either to move or to capture.  A key board I see the pawn being used would be in cases of the Simplified Chess board, or any board where you want to secure an area in front of pawns, without giving them added mobility.

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