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 that there was no consistency as to which squares were dark. The more frequent practice seems to be that the square at each player's lower-right is white. The winning objective is the same as modern chess: to checkmate the enemy king. The pieces are as follows: At the start of the game each player must move his rook pawns, his queen pawn, and his queen two squares forward (see top diagram). Such a two-square leap along a file was called a "Freudensprung" (English: "joy-leap"). Wirnt von Gravenberg, writing early in the thirteenth century, mentioned the Courier Game in his poem