Bishop pawn

A bishop pawn is a pawn on the c-file or the f-file. A file is a vertical column of the board. The name comes from the initial setup: the bishops begin on c1 and f1 for White, and on c8 and f8 for Black.

Traditional terminology distinguishes the queen bishop pawn on the c-file from the king bishop pawn on the f-file. Modern writing usually says c-pawn or f-pawn instead. The label identifies a file, not a movement pattern: the pawn keeps the ordinary pawn rules and does not move like a bishop.

This naming system also produces terms such as king's pawn and knight pawn. If a pawn captures onto another file, a location-based description of that pawn may change as well.