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Pawn (chess)

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Chess pawns

The pawn (♙, ♟) is the most numerous and weakest piece in the game of chess. It may move one square directly forward, it may move two squares directly forward on its first move, and it may capture one square diagonally forward. Each player begins a game with eight pawns, one on each square of their second rank. The white pawns start on a2 through h2; the black pawns start on a7 through h7.

Quotes

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  • The Pawn before the King is peace,
      Which he desires to keep at home;
    Practice, the Queen’s, which doth not cease
      Amid the world abroad to roam,
        To find and fall upon each foe
        Whereas his mistress means to go.
    Before the Knight is peril placed,
      Which he, by skipping, overgoes,
    And yet that Pawn can work a cast
      To overthrow his greatest foes;
        The Bishop’s, prudence, prying still
        Which way to work his master’s will.
    The Rooks’ poor Pawns are silly swains,
      Which seldom serve, except by hap,
    And yet those Pawns can lay their trains
      To catch a great man in a trap:
        So that I see sometime a groom
        May not be spared from his room.
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