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Bob Greenwade wrote on Sat, Mar 16 02:11 AM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 12:50 AM:

Both Berolina and Chinese Pawns are omnidirectional Pawns. They move orthogonally (one square only) but capture diagonally.

If these two Pawn types are essentially the same, you might as well replace both with Stewards, which have the same move (move without capturing one square orthogonally, capture one square diagonally).

This is approximately what I was trying to get at earlier. There's not really any reason to call them Berolina and Chinese Pawns when they don't move like those pieces, but instead move like Stewards. And if a piece basically is a Steward, why not call it that?

(Personally, I'd want to change the Chinese Pawns to Guardians or Anti-Pawns, but that's just me.)

And just to clarify: these Stewards promote when reaching e12-m12 for White, or e5-m5 for Black, right?