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Rules of Chess: Pawns FAQ. Rules of promotion and movement of pawns explained.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Dec 22, 2005 11:34 PM UTC:
What you have described is not a legal Pawn move. A Pawn's initial double move is always non-capturing and always straight forward. A Pawn may capture on its first move, but only in the usual way it captures, one space diagonally forward.