A pawn that can guard or be guarded by a pawn on a adjoining file. The diagram from the game Timman-Winants, Brussels 1986 shows us the connected pawns on b2 and c2.
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Quotes of the Day
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger.
Arkady Dvorkovich 2011
When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.
Garry Kasparov
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.
Veselin Topalov 2014
The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules
Vishy Anand 2017
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic.
Alexander Roshal