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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.
Shogi, like western chess, can be divided into the opening, middle game and endgame, each requiring a different strategy.The opening consists of arranging one's defenses and positioning for attack, the middle game consists of attempting to break through the opposing defenses while maintaining one's own, and the endgame starts when one side's defenses have been compromised.
Staircase maneuvers tend to occur in queen and pawn endgames, where the defender has advanced pawns on the seventh rank.Here the attacking queen alternates between black and white squares giving pins and checks until it reaches an open file to deliver the final mate.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Black exchanges the pawn on c5 for White's pawn on d4, and then places pawns on the squares a6, b6, d6, and e6. These pawns form a row of "spines" behind which Black develops their forces. Typically, the bishops are placed on b7 and e7, knights on d7 and f6, queen on c7, and rooks on c8 and e8 (or c8 and d8).
These possibilities can also be reached via transposition from the Mikenas–Carls Variation of the English Opening (1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4), although if Black wishes to play this way, the optimal move order is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6.
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