Pawns of the same colour that are on adjoining files and are able to support and guard each other.
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Quotes of the Day
The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.
Savielly Tartakower
I’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play.
Alexander Grischuk 2014
There is no room for gallantry in chess.
Irving Chernev
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 2009
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”
Alexander Alekhine