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PAWN

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PAWN

one square forward, two on its first move, capturing diagonally — and never going back

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Standard$1.50

Payment and email are handled by Paddle. The download link arrives by email — no account, no password.

Formats
A4 · A3 · A2
What you get
Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject
sport · beginners · reference · study

The move: FIDE Laws of Chess, article 3 (in force 2023). The piece: FIDE Handbook C.02, 6.2–6.3 (in force 2026).

THE ONE PIECE THAT MOVES AND CAPTURES DIFFERENTLY

For five of the pieces the square moved to and the square captured on are the same square. For the pawn they never coincide anywhere: it goes forward along the file and captures diagonally forward. A pawn standing directly in front of an enemy pawn can therefore neither advance nor take it — a position impossible for any other piece.

Capturing en passant comes from here. The two-square first move entered the rules later than the game itself, and with it came the need to let the opponent take such a pawn as though it had advanced only one square. It can be done immediately and not later: the right disappears the moment any other move is made.

And a third thing peculiar to the pawn: on reaching the far rank it stops being itself. The player must exchange it for a queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same colour, as they choose and regardless of what pieces are already on the board. The rules allow neither leaving the pawn a pawn nor making a king of it.

On the sheet

  • The move: FIDE Laws of Chess, article 3 (in force 2023). The piece: FIDE Handbook C.02, 6.2–6.3 (in force 2026).
  • Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
  • Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

  • Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
  • All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
  • White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
  • Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
  • No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 9 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

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