passed pawn

English

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

White's pawns on b5, c4, and e5 are passed pawns. Black's pawn on d4 is passed.

Noun

passed pawn (plural passed pawns)

1. (chess) A pawn that has passed beyond enemy pawns on its own or adjacent files, and that hence has a clear run to the first or eighth rank.

Synonyms

• passer

Hypernyms

• pawn

Hyponyms

• outside passed pawn
• remote passed pawn

Translations

pawn that has passed beyond enemy pawns

• Catalan: peó passat m
• Dutch: vrijpion m
• Finnish: vapaasotilas (fi)
• French: pion passé m
• German: Freibauer (de) m
• Italian: pedone passato m
• Portuguese: peão passado m
• Russian: проходная пешка f (proxodnaja peška), проходная (ru) f (proxodnaja)
• Spanish: peón pasado m
• Swedish: fribonde (sv) c
• Turkish: geçer piyon

Further reading

• passed pawn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia