Pawn (chess) Pawn (chess) The pawn (♙,♟) is the most numerous piece in the game of chess, and in most circumstances, also the weakest. It historically represents infantry, or more particularly, armed peasants or pikemen. Each player begins a game with eight pawns, one on each square of the immediately in front of the other pieces. (The white pawns start on a2, b2, c2, d2, e2, f2, g2, h2; the black pawns start on a7, b7, c7, d7. e7, f7, g7, h7.) Individual pawns are referred to by the on which they stand. For example, one speaks of "White's f-pawn" or "Black's
Infinite chess a checkmate. Theorists conceive of infinite chess variations to expand the theory of chess in general, or as a model to study other mathematical, economic, or game-playing strategies. For infinite chess, mathematical investigations have shown that in a general endgame, one player can force a win in a finite number of moves. More specifically, it has been found that infinite chess is decidable; that is, given a position (such as formula_1, and assuming pawns do not promote) of a finite number of chess pieces which are uniformly mobile and with constant and linear freedom, and (for example) White to move,