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Interesting. If I was teaching kids to play for the first time, I'd teach them first how to checkmate with a queen and king vs king. Then I'd show them pawns and the idea to promote. Most high level games are won because of promotion ideas and not some beautiful middlegame checkmate attack.

Great idea to create this pawn game.
It is a very interesting game. In the past I have taught people through basic endgame patterns while learning one piece at a time. I never thought of this pawn game. This is part of the required curriculum for chess in schools near Cincinnati Ohio.
As far as I can tell nobody has solved the game completely yet. It is hard to use a computer if there are no kings. I think the four pawn game is solved as a win for white, but I don't know about the eight pawn game yet.

@greysensei said in #8: > Interesting. If I was teaching kids to play for the first time, I'd teach them first how to checkmate with a queen and king vs king. Then I'd show them pawns and the idea to promote. Most high level games are won because of promotion ideas and not some beautiful middlegame checkmate attack. > > Great idea to create this pawn game. It is a very interesting game. In the past I have taught people through basic endgame patterns while learning one piece at a time. I never thought of this pawn game. This is part of the required curriculum for chess in schools near Cincinnati Ohio. As far as I can tell nobody has solved the game completely yet. It is hard to use a computer if there are no kings. I think the four pawn game is solved as a win for white, but I don't know about the eight pawn game yet.

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@InkyDarkBird said in #10:

This solution works.
I am wrong.
It is counter intuitive.
when I first started analyzing the pawn game, I thought black would win because white should run out of moves first. Upon deeper analysis I found that white has more control and the first move is actually a winning advantage.
The pawn game is deceptive in this way for sure.

@InkyDarkBird said in #10: > This solution works. > I am wrong. It is counter intuitive. when I first started analyzing the pawn game, I thought black would win because white should run out of moves first. Upon deeper analysis I found that white has more control and the first move is actually a winning advantage. The pawn game is deceptive in this way for sure.