isolated pawn

English

	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h

White's pawn on the e-file and Black's pawn on the a-file are isolated.

Noun

isolated pawn (plural isolated pawns)

1. (chess) A pawn that has no friendly pawn on an adjacent file.

See also

• isolani

Further reading

• isolated pawn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia