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In an earlier article in this blog, we had discussed about the importance of the pawns especially their inability to move backwards. Pawns, though considered to the weakest in terms of value, has the only attribute of getting promoted, which no other piece in the board, including the King, has. It is thus imperative [...]
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In the game of chess, there is a general notion among the players that a middle game or an end game in which the players have opposite colored bishops, the possibility of one player claiming victory over the other is relatively less, and those games generally end in a draw. Even pawn advantage also [...]
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In continuation of an earlier post on the same subject, Give more importance to understanding of openings and variations, we shall look at another game played between the grandmasters in a tournament in 1999, where as many as 28 moves played by both the players and the position reached at the end of [...]