HANGING PAWNS

Steinitz’s term for two adjacent Pawns which are on the fourth rank, cannot be supported by other Pawns, are not passed Pawns, and which are on half-open files. About hanging Pawns in end-game Euwe said: hanging Pawns are nearly always weak.

I am a totally normal guy. My father is considerably more intelligent than I am. Magnus Carlsen
2010
Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose… Vladimir Kramnik 2017
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Savielly Tartakower
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer. Andrey Filatov
I have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well, Kasparov was the Titanic. Alexander Roshal

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