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This joining pawn drop followed by dangling pawn drop sequence corresponds to a shogi aphorism (将棋の格言 shōgi no kakugen): 三歩あったら、継ぎ歩とたれ歩 sanpu attara tsugifu to tarefu "if you have three pawns, joining pawn and dangling pawn". [4] Joining pawn tactics may be useful in damaging the structure of an opponent's ...
The pawn is the least valuable chess piece, so pawns are often used to capture defended pieces. A single pawn typically forces a more powerful piece, such as a rook or a knight, to retreat. The ability to fork two enemy pieces by advancing a pawn is often a threat. Alternately, a pawn move can itself reveal a discovered attack.
A pawn storm, sometimes called a pawn avalanche, [1] is a chess tactic in which several pawns are moved in rapid succession toward the opponent's defenses. [2] A pawn storm usually involves adjacent pawns on the flank of the board, such as the queenside (a-, b-, and c- files ) or the kingside (f-, g-, and h-files).
Exchanges can appear in connection with practically any kind of attacking or defensive chess tactic or combination of tactics. Such tactics can involve checkmating the opponent, avoiding checkmate, gaining a material advantage, avoid losing more material than necessary, helping a pawn to promote, preventing an opponent's pawn promotion, or setting up a draw by any of a couple methods.
A pawn standing on a promotion square on the opponent's half of the board may be promoted to a queen. Promotion can occur only if the player's queen is captured, so a player cannot have several queens at once. [65] [66] A pawn is not promoted the moment it reaches a promotion square; it may be promoted only on a subsequent move.
Chess strategy is the aspect of chess play concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play. While evaluating a position strategically, a player must take into account such factors as the relative value of the pieces on the board, pawn structure, king safety, position of pieces, and control of key squares and groups of squares (e.g. diagonals ...
The earliest recorded game to feature the Stonewall Attack would appear to have been Howard Staunton vs John Cochrane, London, 1842.The first player to use the opening regularly, however, was the Boston master Preston Ware, who frequently opened 1.d4 2.f4 from 1876 to 1882.
The best known of these, called the Poisoned Pawn Variation, is a line of the Sicilian Defense, Najdorf Variation that begins with the moves: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6. after which 8.Qd2 Qxb2 usually follows, accepting the "poisoned" b2-pawn. White can also play 8.Nb3, protecting the pawn.