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Pawn (Xiangqi). Moves and captures one square straight forward.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jun 27, 2005 07:51 AM UTC:
It is also worth mentioning on this page the use of an essentially similar
piece in the variants played in
(1) Korea, where it can move all three directions at once;
(2) Japan, where it moves only in the forward direction until it reaches
the enemy camp and is then optionally gains 5 other one-step moves
including the sideways ones.