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Subject: Re: Outside passer and candidate passer: definition wanted! :-)

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 03:08:43 02/27/06

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Thanks Graham,
your definitions are crystal clear! :-)

With those, I can get some ideas on scoring candidates but still have some doubt
on outside passers.
If I get the idea correctly, the strength of an outside passer is that it's far
from the "main" play area, so it can advance with more freedom and if king has
to stop it, it has to do so at the cost of leaving a good position or maybe
material.
Is this true? And if so, is it limited to pawn-only endgames or has some
relevance with other pieces on the board?

On February 27, 2006 at 04:27:14, Graham Banks wrote:

>An outside passer is a passed pawn on the flank, usually the a,b,g or h file.
>
>A candidate passer is a potential passed pawn usually waiting to be created
>through exchanges and most often as a result of a pawn majority.
>
>Graham.



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