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EURASIAN PAWN. Pawn-types deserve definitely their own scrutiny. Gilman's reference
reflects 100-200 Pawn possibilities. One Pawn, Eurasian, captures north too
in simple addition. For Next Chess in and if 10x10, rate Eurasian Pawn as
about the best current example.  Eurasian Pawn recommends paucity of
rules-adjustment to effect, in principle of Ockham's Razor. Differently,
stereotypical 10x10 Pawns invoke all of (a) 3-step origination (b) en
passant complication (c) ever-optional two-step -- making a set of three
nuances inconvenient to keep in mind let alone implement by players. As
natural formation, it's a real candidate for conventionalization. 
Eurasian Pawn creates spaciousness 10x10, before and between which pieces
may pass. No way anymore contentedly passive orthogonal-forward placement-adjacency
without fear of attack, waiting things out. I rate Centennial omni-Pawn
best replacement for Western F.i.d.e. Pawn on 8x10. And Eurasian could as
well be provisional standard, where there has been none, 10x10. With
respect to the stereotypical tries, just face it: 3-step opening is ugly, ugly
and En Passant capture of a three-stepped Pawn now 2 spaces behind as
juvenile as it is ridiculous. Those latter two ''mini- Pawn-rules'' are
seemingly offhandedly injected into many a CV art-write-up's last
paragraph, obligatory as fixers; and they are ''maxi-ugly'' --
like this present closing capital sentence.