Outside passed pawns: - a strong argument in chess!
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on Sat, 09/12/2009 at 12:37am.
In one of my free OTB - games came up following position:
I had had for a long time the initiative and now I saw the chance to transpose into a better bishop endgame with an outside passed pawn
1. ... Bxg2 !
The bishop cannot be taken, because of f3!
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Here a position from an online game I played some month ago here at chess.com.-
(It is the continuation of the game phase I have shown in
The simple path!)
Presumely this position is lost anyway cause of the extra pawn in b-file and the active king. But creating an outside passed pawn brought a quick decision:
Similiar themes:
The concept of the far distant passed pawn
The underestimated pawns!
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