Piece Personalities

solskytz wrote:

"How about differences in character between different pawns?

A-pawn - shy and edgy

B-pawn - likes to embarrass enemy pieces by suddenly making the 2-square jump

C-pawn - always frustrated as he's just off the center (so bullies the enemy D-pawn continually)

D-pawn - confident as the big lady protects him

E-pawn - the eternal 'why me?' guy on the first move of open games

F-pawn - the risk taker, the guy who shouldn't have moved off of f2

G-pawn - if this isn't a fianchetto or some theoretical Sicilian attacking move, it was probably an error

H-pawn - the 'amateur-move' pawn

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It's possible to differentiate character according to the exact square, for example

a2 is really the shy guy in the corner, while a3 is the 'you won't come in' tough doorman, or 'the question-putter', and so on, and so forth"

I like the idea of that. The Game and Playe of the Chesse, as I think it is called, provides different occupations for the pawns (lowlife, guard, etc.). The leftmost pawn would probably be left-handed, since the book calls attention to the fact that they are sinister, which also means left.

Let's be honest...The king is just a coward