Played a rapid game last night where my opponent got one set of isolated tripled, one set of isolated doubled, and two other isolated pawns by move 16.
Wondering if anyone’s ever seen a worse pawn ‘structure’?
Worst pawn structure of all time?
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Matt Fletcher
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Worst pawn structure of all time?
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Nick Burrows
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
Very impressive!
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Kevin Thurlow
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
Two club colleagues had a game where both of them had 6 isolated pawns (2 pairs of doubleb pawns and two sole ones).
At least you read the chapter on pawn structure!
At least you read the chapter on pawn structure!
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
I recommend a thorough study of Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch. He would be most amused.
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Kevin Williamson
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
This happened earlier this season in a Beds league game. I've just played fxg5 giving myself tripled isolated pawns, two sets of doubled isolated pawns and a single isolated pawn. The position is actually OK though and the game was drawn soon after.
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
I was recently going through the Edinburgh Committee's circa 1830's report on the Edinburgh v London 1824-1828 match.
The said in Game 5 (which they won) although their pawns were isolated and doubled they had enjoyed a certain
amount of active play and perhaps Philidor's views on the subject of pawns needs to be reconsidered.
This is actually pioneering stuff. Chess by trial and error.
However later in the game Philidor was somewhat vindicated as a passed pawn, which Edinburgh sacced a piece to obtain, won the day.
That game had the classic position (white to play)
The move to stop mate in one is 40.g5 which in turn threatens mate in one with the very pawn that just moved.
Edinburgh is White
The said in Game 5 (which they won) although their pawns were isolated and doubled they had enjoyed a certain
amount of active play and perhaps Philidor's views on the subject of pawns needs to be reconsidered.
This is actually pioneering stuff. Chess by trial and error.
However later in the game Philidor was somewhat vindicated as a passed pawn, which Edinburgh sacced a piece to obtain, won the day.
That game had the classic position (white to play)
The move to stop mate in one is 40.g5 which in turn threatens mate in one with the very pawn that just moved.
Edinburgh is White
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Worst pawn structure of all time?
One of the Botvinnik-Smyslov WC matches had a game with *both* players possessing trebled pawns for at least a few moves.
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