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pawn: isolated
ByDrDave“An isolated Pawn spreads gloom over the whole chess board” — Xsavery TARTAKOWER A Pawn with no pawns of the same side on neighbouring files Such a pawn can always be protected by pieces, and so may be a weakness Isolated Queen’s Pawns (IQPs) are a special case, where the owner of the IQP has…
the Exchange
ByDrDaveNot exchanges in general: The Exchange. The Exchange is when a Bishop or Knight is swapped for a Rook. By normal chess accounting, that’s a swap of 3 pawns for 5, so one player has lost the Exchange, we say, and is then an Exchange behind in material. Losing the Exchange is enough to lose…
Battleships: crack the chess code!
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pawn chain
ByDrDave“Pawns are born free, but everywhere are in chains” — Andrew SOLTIS A pawn chain is a diagonal line of pawns where each pawn is protected by one to the rear. There is a very common example in the main line of the French Defence: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4….
Overprotection
ByDrDaveA hole in a chess position is a square in the pawn structure that cannot be defended by a pawn. It is a square that your opponent’s pieces might be able to sit in and you can’t get them out. (Steinitz-Blackburne) It’s like having a nail in your shoe… A hole used like this is…