Backward pawn

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8
c6 black pawn
d5 black pawn
d4 white pawn
8
77
66
55
44
33
22
11
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Black has a backward pawn on c6.

In chess, a backward pawn is a pawn that is behind all pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and cannot be safely advanced.[1] In the diagram, the black pawn on the c6-square is backward.

  1. ^ Silman 1998, p. 236.