Editing Pawn (chess) (section)

===Doubled pawn===
{{main article|Doubled pawns}}
{{Chess diagram
| tright
|
|rd|  |bd|kd|  |bd|  |rd
|pd|pd|pd|  |  |pd|pd|pd
|  |  |pd|  |  |  |  |  
|  |  |  |  |pl|nd|  |  
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
|  |  |nl|  |  |nl|  |  
|pl|pl|pl|  |  |pl|pl|pl
|rl|  |bl|  |  |rl|kl| 
| Black has doubled c-pawns.
}}
After a capture with a pawn, a player may end up with two pawns on the same {{chessgloss|file}}, called ''[[doubled pawns]]''. Doubled pawns are substantially weaker than pawns that are side by side, because they cannot defend each other, they usually cannot both be defended by adjacent pawns, and the front pawn blocks the advance of the back one. In the diagram, the doubled c-pawns are a strategic disadvantage for Black.

There are situations where doubled pawns confer some advantage, typically when the guarding of consecutive squares in a file by the pawns prevents an invasion by the opponent's pieces.

Pawns that are both doubled and isolated are typically a tangible weakness. A single piece or pawn in front of doubled isolated pawns blocks both of them, and cannot be easily dislodged. It is rare for a player to have three pawns in a file, i.e. ''tripled'' pawns.