2-19b shows how the white pawn captures the black pawn (although the black pawn could have captured the white pawn if it were black’s turn!).
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FIGURE 2-19: Pawn fight: White captures black.
If no member of the opposing army occupies a square that the pawn attacks, then the pawn can move forward. If a piece or another pawn is in front of it, but nothing is on the squares the pawn can capture, the pawn is stymied and can’t move; chess players say the pawn is locked. In Figure 2-20, the pawns on d5 and d6 are locked … by each other.
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FIGURE 2-20: A pair of pawns locks horns.
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FIGURE 2-21: Pawn love and bravery, known as the lever.
With the additional pawn’s aid, now two of the pawns can capture each other. If the black pawn captures the white pawn, the remaining white pawn is free to move. Often the lever can be used to pry open an otherwise locked position, a technique that’s seen over and over again in the games of the masters.
You need to know a few more things about pawns, but I don’t discuss them in this chapter. I cover pawn promotion and something called en passant (or “in passing”) in Chapter 5, which deals with special moves. The pawns’ placement is collectively referred to as the pawn structure, and I examine this concept in detail in Chapter 3. I also devote a whole chapter to pawn structures that are associated with particular openings – see Chapter 10 for information on pawn formations.
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