I would like to show you some wonderful positions , where pawns decide the outcome of the whole game!
Optueta – Sanz, Madrid 1934.
Black to move…
And it doesn’t look very dangerous for white .The pawn on b2 is protected…The bishop on b6 looks passive But a passed pawn may become so dangerous….And a knight is not the [...]
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500 years ago chess was different from today.
Pawns didn’t cost as much as they do today.
The best players started games with the gambits. Pawns were only a small price to:
Open a file or diagonal;
Create an immediate attack on an opponent’s king;
It was the Italian style of chess.All positions of the King’s Gambit were very popular [...]
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