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LEARN CHESS WITH

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Pawn Mower is a great way to teach beginning students how the pieces move. Begin by teaching them how a piece moves. Before moving on to another piece, let them do Pawn Mower puzzles featuring that piece until you are confident they have mastered its movement. The younger the player, the longer you will need to spend on each piece. Don’t worry, they will have fun with the puz-zles, so they won’t mind if it takes some time. If they do, it might be a sign that they are ready to move on.

Once all the pieces have been taught, all that remains is to teach them how pawns move, a couple of special moves, and wa la…they can play a game of chess. Some kids learn faster if the puzzles are initially set up and solved on a chess board.

LEARN CHESS WITH PAWN MOWER

Pawn Mower Solving Directions

Use the given piece (queen, rook, knight or bishop) to eliminate all of the pawns ( ) on the board. Pawns are captured by moving to the square on which they are standing. The number of moves in the solution depends entirely on the number of pawns to be removed (5 pawns will require 5 moves). You cannot move to an empty square.

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Learn how the Rook moves

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To solve the puzzles, you will need to know how each piece moves. Let’s start with the rook. The rook moves vertically and horizontally.

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That’s all there is to it! You are ready to try one.

The Rook

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In this example, the rook will capture one pawn on each move -- five pawns, five moves.

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Here is another, more complex example:

In this example, the rook must capture 7 pawns in 7 moves, one pawn per move.

SolutionThe rook moves to each of these squares

Let’s try one more rook puzzle. Remember, each puzzle has only one solution.

f 8 a8 a2 g2 g3 e3 e1

e1 e8 h8 h5 b5 b2 b7 a7

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Remember, the rook moves vertically and horizontally.

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