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Subject: Re: Why Rybka is better than the rest!

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 15:14:29 01/15/06

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On January 15, 2006 at 12:53:34, Steve Maughan wrote:

>When you say "free pawns" is this the same as passed pawns?
>
>Steve

Hmmf, maybee..... :-)

In general it should be the same, but it is a bit difficult for me to call a
white pawn on a2 with no black pawn on the a or b file free. But technically it
may be a passed pawn. So in my terminology a passed pawn has no pawn oponents in
front or on either side.
With a free pawn i normally think of a passed pawn that is not blocked by
officers at the moment, so it is free to move forward. So I feel I would have
been more correct to say passed pawns when describing Rybkas play.

But I am starting to get tired, so I hope I do not make a mess of this.

Torstein



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