Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 11:22:47 12/31/01
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"Pawn Lever" was first discussed in great detail in the classic chess book, "Pawn Power in Chess", by Hans Kmoch. It came out in 1959 and introduced a whole new set of terminology for various pawn formations (ram, sneaker, stop, telestop, head-duo, buffer duo, and many more). The only "new" term from that book that is still commonly used today is "pawn lever", which refers to the following very simple situation: *** A Black pawn and a White pawn are positioned so that either one can capture the other. *** "A lever creates tension which may or may not explode in capture. To carry out the capture frequently involves a concession. ... It usually happens that each side continues trying to induce the other to make the capture. Their mutual efforts are comparable to the stress of power and load on a lever." There are many sub-types of levers (loose, tight; inner, center, outer; chain, pincer, cross). The whole book is quite fascinating, in my opinion, and a must-have in any chess-book collection. On December 31, 2001 at 07:44:35, Gary Cottle wrote: >In Fritz 7's Engine Parameters Pawn Levers is mentioned. I have not heard of >this term and can't find it in chess literature I have access to. If someone >can explain this to me I'd appreciate it. I was even thinking it might be a typo >(they meant Pawn "Levels"). > >Thanks in advance, >Gary
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