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When a Pawn Is (Not) a Pawn

When a Pawn Is (Not) a Pawn

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Nov 02, 2024
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Usually being a pawn up in otherwise equal circumstances means a win for the player with the advantage. This is particularly true for the best players, whose technique is more than sufficient in such cases.

And yet there are a lot of positions where a "clear" pawn up is insufficient to win. I am not talking about Marshall positions where Black has obvio…

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