I dont think so. Then Fencer might as well just shut down the site. Pawns are important to the site as far as having more peopleto play. Also if you dont give someone a chance to play for free at the beginning how will they get a chance to see how good this site is? Besides there are several who cant afford to pay for a membership due any number of circumstances. I was a pawn for a long time too. However now I am able to afford membership, I bought a membership through December 2005 plus have helped a couple of others attain a membership as well. I do beleive that 20 games and unlimited moves is more than generous when compared to IYT who has only 25 moves a day for non paying members. I think we could limit the number of moves per day on pawns though. Maybe unlimited moves for the first 60 days and then after that limit them to 50 moves a day. 50 moves for many is still a lot of moves per day.I would be willing to bet the average pawn carries 10-12 games so that would average out to 4-5 moves per game per day. Not too bad.