Welcome to the MYMChess Virtual Chess Study!
Lesson 2:
- Movement and Piece Value: The Pawn
Lesson Goal:
- In this lesson, you will learn more about the pawn!
- Piece value
- How does it move
- How does it captures
- The only piece that can never move backwards
- It can be promoted whenever it reaches the final rank of its destination.
- Watch the quick video MYM Chess Coach RJ and practice with our interactive Chess pieces!
- Now that you have watched the video. Practice it with the below interactive games!
- Exercise 1)
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- White to move: Find the capture using the pawn. (Hint: There is only 1 possible capture)
- Exercise 2)
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- White to Move: Move and promote the pawn to a Queen (Hint: Take advantage of the 2 squares on Pawn’s first move!)
That was easy, Right? You are one step closer to become a good chess player now that you have learned about the pawn.
Don’t forget to take a screenshot of your final position and submit to your teacher!