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A pawn island is one or a group of pawns separated by a file from pawns of the same side The pawns at the edges of islands are not necessarily isolated or hanging, but they are limited in the support they can get without making weakness. So, having fewer pawn islands in the endgame is…
A nice easy one: having more pawns than your opponent on one side (and an open file there too, otherwise we have the half-open files setting for a minority attack) Capablanca shows Marshall that a working majority is enough to win the game: you create a passed pawn. A working King’s-side majority can produce an…
“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….
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