Plate V
The Pawn
STAUNTON PATTERN · SPHERICAL FINIAL · WEIGHTED
1 POINT · IT NEVER RETREATS
One square forward, two from home — and it captures on the diagonal.
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- 1Spherical head
- 2Collar
[The spec]
- Move
- One up (two from home)
- Captures
- Diagonally forward only
- Promotion
- Eighth rank → new piece
- Special
- En passant; never retreats
[At the board]
The only man that moves and captures by different rules, and the only one that can never step backward; reach the eighth rank and it must promote, almost always to a queen. That lone diagonal capture is what makes en passant legal — the move that catches a pawn trying to sprint two squares past an enemy’s guard.
[Take it home]
Carry the position as original merch in the first run, or read the deeper club-grade guides.