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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Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.
Hans Ree
To Put It Mildly, I Have Not a Bit of Respect For Topalov
Vladimir Kramnik 2015
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!
Garry Kasparov 2017
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.
Jan Timman 1991 NIC