Author: margolies,marc
Date: 00:53:14 07/04/03
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Didactic(teacher's) comments about pawn moves will not solve the problemof evaluation of tempi. When the great masters of chess taught this -to bring out peices only-, they taught novices. a strong player must be aware of when to break such a rule and not yield to it. Moreover, opening theory has been transformed from the time of this advice. And while piece play is clear development, often pieces work well behind a 'pawn screen.' Pawns can be advanced with a gain of tempo specifically when the pawn move forces the adversary to redeploy a minor piece. Here are some advantageous openings with many pawn moves... Austrian/4 pawns attack against the King's indian or Pirc Defense, Alekhine's defense-nezhmetdinov,chase variation, Torre-Mexican Defense(black knight's tango). Please note that the examples I give directly apply to the white pieces because he starts a tempo up-- that's why white can seek these pawn attacks. And I do not think development is always enough; pieces should be on good squares. Of course this can be examined as a tactical calculation- no EVAL necessary. On July 03, 2003 at 16:33:19, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >On July 03, 2003 at 15:54:59, Matthew White wrote: > >>One way of increasing the steps is counting pawn moves. I forget who said it, >>but pieces are supposed to be moved in the opening, not pawns. The only reason >>to move pawns is so that pieces can go to good squares or to prevent the >>opponent from gaining too much space. This obviously doesn't account for moving >>pieces multiple times, but it is a start. > >This according to Nimzowitsch. >I believe the modern view is that pawn moves might also serve to control key >squares (e.g. center squares). > >Andrei
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