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Sergeant. A combination of the Berolina and usual Pawns.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Apr 12, 2003 07:20 AM UTC:
In Shogi variants a piece identiacl to this, except without the initial double move, is called the Iron General. A bit of a discrepancy in rank!

Glenn Overby II wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2003 12:42 AM UTC:
Yes, but Shogi has a whole bunch of generals. The promotion in rank is necessary to avoid falling from sight :)

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Nov 14, 2008 01:50 PM UTC:
Note that Problemists know this piece under the name Graz pawn (german: Grazer Bauer) or twin pawn (german: Zwillingsbauer). --JKn

chebetol wrote on Sat, Dec 28, 2013 08:33 PM UTC:
"The Sergeant is a logical development of the Pawn and Berolina Pawn,
since it combines the movements of both"
Not so logical as it only do the double step as pawn and not also as
berolina pawn.

Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Fri, Dec 11, 2020 08:37 PM UTC in reply to chebetol from Sat Dec 28 2013 08:33 PM:

I agree with Chebetol. Also, "In the diagram below, the Sergeant can move and capture to all the squares marked with a black circle. The Sergeant can make its initial(non-capturing) double-step to the square marked with a green circle." In the diagram, the black circles are green, and the green is red! This page deserves a second look maybe.


Greg Strong wrote on Mon, Dec 14, 2020 11:24 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Fri Dec 11 08:37 PM:

Thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the page.


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