Pawn duel
Pawn duel is a logical chess game. Two players are taking part, each one has three (sometimes more) pawns, placed in opposite to each other on controversial ending lanes. First move belongs to the player controlling the white pawns. Each move means changing the position of a single pawn of your color. During the first move, a player can go no further than middle of a board, but there is no such limitation during the next moves. Pawns may go forward or backward. The goal of each player is to leave the opponent with no moves.
The game is a discrete sequential non-cooperative game with perfect information and zero-sum according to game theory. If the first player (white) knows ideal strategy of the game, he can secure his own victory. A single wrong move of white pawns, however, gives the advantage to the second player and the latter wins if he knows ideal strategy. A position in pawn duel could be evaluated completely (unlike chess) and illustrates how a single move can dramatically change the result of the entire game.
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See also
- Nim
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ru:Пешечная дуэль