Berolina chess is a
chess variant using a popular
fairy chess piece
A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems. Compared to conventional pieces, fair ...
called the Berolina pawn (also known as ''Berlin pawn'', ''Anti-pawn'', or simply ''Berolina''). The Berolina pawn was invented by Edmund Nebermann in 1926
[''Funkschach'', August 1926] and has found frequent use in
chess problem
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s.
Berolina chess follows the same
rules
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as
standard chess, except that all 16 pawns are replaced by equivalently-colored Berolina pawns.
Berolina pawn
The Berolina pawn moves, without capturing, one square diagonally forward. It captures one square straight forward. (Thus, it is the converse of a standard chess
pawn
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, which moves straight forward and captures diagonally forward.)
The Berolina has the option to move two squares diagonally forward on its first move. Capturing ''
en passant
''En passant'' (, "in passing") is a method of capturing in chess that occurs when a pawn captures a horizontally adjacent enemy pawn that has just made an initial two-square advance. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy paw ...
'' is possible as well: a Berolina pawn may capture a horizontally adjacent enemy Berolina pawn that has just made a two-square move as if the latter had only moved one square. Like the orthodox pawn, the Berolina pawn is
promoted when it reaches its last .
Related pawn variants
Two famous pawns also used in problem compositions are the Berolina Plus and the Sergeant.
* The ''Berolina Plus'' can move and capture the same as the Berolina pawn or capture one square horizontally (see diagram).
* The ''Sergeant'' combines the standard chess pawn and the Berolina pawn; that is, it can move to, or capture on, any of the three squares immediately in front.
See also
*
Wolf Chess—a chess variant employing Sergeants
References
Bibliography
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External links
Berolina Chessby
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The Chess Variant Pages
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The Piececlopedia: Berolina Pawnby
Hans Bodlaender
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The Chess Variant Pages
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Berolina Chessa simple program by Ed Friedlander
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