Race to the corner 2

Rules — Race to the corner 2

• Same idea as "Race to the corner": one rook, shared by both players, taking turns.
• The rook may only move up or right, any number of squares — never left, never down.
• Whoever moves the rook onto the top-right corner 🏁 wins.
• New: there are 3 pawns on the board. The rook can neither jump over a pawn nor land on its square — a pawn blocks the whole rest of that row or column.

Level 1 — Fixed pawns:

• Pawns sit at c4, e5 and g6 and never move. Only the rook moves, exactly like level 1 of the original game.

Level 2 — Movable pawns:

• Pawns start at c3, e4 and g5.
• On your turn you play either a rook move or advance one pawn exactly one square forward.
• A pawn can never reach the last rank (row 8) — that move is forbidden.
• A pawn cannot advance onto a square the rook is sitting on.

The rook (♜) starts on a2. Normally it could slide right along the whole row — but a pawn (♟) sits on b2, right next to it, so every square to its right is blocked: not a single rightward move is legal. The only legal move is up, to a3. From there row 3 is clear, so the rook can slide all the way to the corner 🏁.

A pawn blocks the entire rest of its row and column — the rook can never jump over it or land on it, even from further away.