Boards & Equipment

What is a pawn island in chess?

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Pawn island is a board or equipment term: a group of pawns of one color on consecutive files with no other pawns of the same color on an adjacent file. A pawn island consisting of one pawn is an isolated pawn. You use this term to describe the board accurately, which matters for notation, coordinates, and analysis.

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