Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 16:38:27 12/24/02
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On December 24, 2002 at 03:40:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >A backward pawn has the following attributes: > >1) It cannot be defended by a pawn. >2) If it advances, it will be captured by an enemy pawn. >3) It is now, or can advance to become, the base of a pawn chain. > >The classic case is black pawns d6, e5, white pawn e4. > >The pawn doesn't have to be on an open file. > >I argue that the pawn cannot be a member of a duo, I disagree. Some pawns can be member of a duo and backward. For example white Rb1,c5 black b7,c7 Kc8 b7 is backward. c5 is not. It is isolated. >nor can it advance to form >one. Meaning, that in my example above, if you put a white pawn on c4, black >pawn on c6, d6 is not backward by this definition. > >The case you are most concerned about is the case where the pawn is on an open >file and there is a protected blockade square in front of the pawn. > >This devalues a majority and leads to all kinds of positional hell. > >bruce
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