What Can a Pawn do in Chess? What Can a Pawn do in Chess? It would not seem like a pawn can do a lot. A pawn seems like a small, insignificant chess piece that has little value. Pawns are worth only one point in chess. A pawn in chess can move forward but cannot move backward. A pawn can capture other pawns of the opposition and can move sideways to capture pawns too. Pawns…