Pawn Game

The Pawn Game, as seen on the website http://www.chesskids.me.uk/ckbook/pawngame.htm or mentioned in wikipedia here (with a king) is a Chess Variant which looks like;

Each player starts with 8 pawns only lined up all along their 2nd rank and the objective is to get one of your pawns to the back rank. I created a board to play on here on chess.com (see my link) in order to create a playable board I had to add an extension on the side with a hemmed in king as a board must feature a king in order to play it, also when your pawn auto promotes to a queen its checkmate and the game ends. See it here;

DRAWING - SOLVING THE PAWN GAME

This game, unlike chess itself, is currently possible to solve. My attempt to solve it goes like so;

So solved its a draw as it's stalemate and neither side can move.

BLACK WINS

A great tactic for black is just to mimic all white's moves until zugszwang is reached and white has to move next since they moved first at start eg.

Here's another way white can lose;

WHITE WINS

If you have white and black does mimic your first move you might be able to get a win like this;

Winning Ideas