Berolina chess Berolina chess Berolina chess is a chess variant using a popular fairy chess piece called the Berolina pawn (also known as "Berlin pawn" or "Anti-pawn"). The Berolina pawn was invented by Edmund Nebermann in 1926 and has found frequent use in chess problems. Berolina chess follows the same rules as standard chess, including castling, except that all eight pawns are replaced by Berolina pawns. The Berolina pawn moves, without capturing, one square diagonally forward. It captures one square straight forward. (So, it is the converse of a standard chess pawn, which moves straight forward and captures diagonally forward.) Like a
Courier chess the standard chessboard in place of the old alfil and gave the queen the combined powers of the courier and the rook. This game was so much more exciting than medieval chess that it soon drove the older game off the market. Other improvements were tried out. One was an optional double first step for the pawns. This was at first restricted to the king's, queen's, and rooks' pawns, and then gradually extended to the others. In the early sixteenth century Lucas van Leyden, in the Netherlands, painted a picture called "The Chess Players" in which a woman appears to