I love the concept of the restoration of millinery equity. Did you give any of the black pawns mirkins?
Why is the Pawn the only piece without a hat?
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The pawn is an uncouth serf who, out of respect to his superiors, has doffed his headgear.
But what is this? Revolution?! Chess is the ultimate meritocracy. A lowley pawn, if pushed with vigour and support, could one day Queen and get a big fat crown of it's very own. Inside every pawn is a Queen trying to get out.
You mean merkins I think.
You have become confused with Dr Gabe Mirkin MD whose papers "Hair Loss in Women" and "Hirstuism" - The vast majority of women with hirsutism are overweight and have acne. The most effective available regimen to for them to take birth control pills and injections of Leuprolide acetate.... are seminal works in their field.
I only do hats and wigs - I'm not a freak.
In 0.5% of cases in GM level games the pawn is under-promoted. I often under-promote mine as I think the element of surprise is very important against stronger opponents.
In last year's Welsh final I had 7 knights on the board against Dai Young before he back-ranked me.
the knights have no hats, their manes flap carelessly in the breeze.
A pawn is the most simplest piece, therefor it has the simplest design.
I apologise for my mis-spelling, merkin being a word I use infrequently at best it's perhaps understandable.
How large are your chess men that you have been able to fashion headpieces and toupees for your pawns? Or are you merely expert with needle and thread and posessed of nimble fingers? How would you advise a person on the making of similar items for the humble travel chess set?
The knights wear hombreros.
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You have the best topics. 
I always imagined that little sphere perched on the piece was a helmet, albeit a simple one. It reminds me the helmet a pikeman (which pawns essentially are) would wear. Like this guy. -> http://www.knightsofavalon.com/delprado_swiss.jpg
I thought it was because they didn't have enough back when chess was created to pay for poor pawn's hat. =P
rich34788 wrote:
I apologise for my mis-spelling, merkin being a word I use infrequently at best it's perhaps understandable.
How large are your chess men that you have been able to fashion headpieces and toupees for your pawns? Or are you merely expert with needle and thread and posessed of nimble fingers? How would you advise a person on the making of similar items for the humble travel chess set?
Apology accepted - an easy mistake to make - in fact the great George W Bush often used to say "I am a Merkin" so you are in esteemed merkin mixing company.
For the wigs I scalped my daughter's Barbies and styled the hair to suit each pawn. She was upset at first but I told her it was very fashionable - a look to die for. She flashed her jade eyes at me and then helped scalp the Sindys as well.
My pawns don't wear hats. But they do have skullies on and whenever they capture something they say "what up?".
You could make the hats out of cheese.
Maybe the pawns just want to get a head tan. I heard it used to be quite popular.
They have no hats because they anticipate being promoted seven squares .
the pawns used to wear hats long ago, but it made all their hair fall out, that's why they're bald now.
As I sit hunched over the board looking at the shining domes of the bald heads of my Pawns I wonder: why is the Pawn the only chess-piece without a hat?
The Bishops have their mitres; the Queen her regal crown; the King his holy one; the Rooks have their castellated head-based accoutrements and the Knights their big horse head hombreros.
Is it a class thing? The working classes being forced into battle without the appropriate headgear? Any chess historians out there who know the answer to this knotty one?
On my home set I have made a set of miniature flat caps for my white pawns and a set of fetching syrups (mullet, goth, comb-over, mohican etc) for the black ones to restore millinery equity to my chess-board.