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Moves without the capture. White can move the king to any of the four squares with a white dot, or the camel to any square with a white cross. Black can move the bishop to any of the squares with a black cross (as well as the f4-square), the black pawn can move to either of the squares with a black dot.
Triangulation can occur in endgames other than king and pawn endgames, such as this game in the 1965 Candidates Tournament, in which future World chess champion Boris Spassky defeated former world champion Mikhail Tal and won the right to challenge the then-current champion Tigran Petrosian. [5]
In this position, if it is Black's move, they can play ...Kb4 and enter the square, catching the pawn. If it is White's move, the pawn advances, the square shrinks to 4×4, and the king cannot move into the square, so the pawn queens. [4] (See Wikibooks – Chess/The Endgame for further discussion on the rule of the square.)
An isolated pawn on the d-file is called an isolated queen pawn or simply an isolani. [2] In addition to the open or half-open c- and e-files, the isolated queen pawn can provide good outposts on the c- and e-file squares diagonally forward of the pawn, which are especially favourable for the player's knights.
The starting position for a four-player game. In a two-player game, green and orange are omitted. Quoridor is played on a game board of 81 square spaces (9×9). Each player is represented by a pawn which begins at the center space of one edge of the board (in a two-player game, the pawns begin opposite each other).
Yuri Averbakh pointed out that the opposition is a means to an end; the end is penetration to a key square. [9] This can be a square in front of a pawn, so the king can lead it to the queening square, or into a critical zone to win an enemy blocked pawn. In the diagram, White should play 1. Kc5. Taking the opposition by 1.Ke4 merely draws.
A pawn can perform a special type of capture of an enemy pawn called en passant ("in passing"), wherein it captures a horizontally adjacent enemy pawn that has just advanced two squares as if that pawn had only advanced one square. If the pawn reaches a square on the back rank of the opponent, it promotes to the player's choice of a queen, rook ...