Pawns are often referred to as the “soul of chess” because of their strategic importance. Their inability to move backwards means that once they move forward, they can’t correct a mistake. This characteristic leads to several key strategic considerations: Pawn Structure:The arrangement of pawns...
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The meaning of PAWN is one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank. How to use p
Round 4 of the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger saw Levon Aronian and Alireza Firouzja playing an Armageddon tiebreaker after drawing their classical game. Karsten Müller assessed the final phase of the encounter as a “fascinating knight en
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Now we can move on to the advanced ones. There are three types of pawn structures to cover in this section, and they can be found in the position below. Here they are: Hanging pawns: white has hanging pawns on c4 and d4. Wedge pawn: black has a wedge pawn on f3. Hook pawn: ...
White to move wins after 1.c6 There is a saying that two connected passed pawns on the sixth rank are stronger than arook. This is true if the other side has nothing but a rook to defend against the pawns (and the defender cannot immediately capture one of the pawns). In this diagram...
Although Nigel Short is now Vice-President of FIDE, he has not yet put his career as a player on hold. At the invitation of the Prague Chess Society, the veteran played a rapid chess match in Prague against the 18-year old Czech Grandmaster Dai Van Nguyen who is considered a great tal...
1. Abbr. P Games A chess piece of lowest value that may move forward one square at a time or two squares in the first move, capture other pieces only on a one-space diagonal forward move, and be promoted to any piece other than a king upon reaching the eighth rank. 2. A person ...
“Some of them had a terrible life, and I just wondered, ‘Why did I have such a different 4 ?’ And it was chess,” he said. To help students in Los Angeles to 5 the game of life, he started Train of Thought. “Every single move that your opponent makes presents a new 6 ...