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Evaluate your Pawn Pushes! | Secret Life of Pawns - GM Elshan Moradiabadi

Grandmaster Elshan Moradiabadi talks about evaluating pawn pushes. The first question to ask is: can I capture the pawn? Learn what it means to have weak squares after pawn pushes. Exploit the weaknesses.

2018.04.24
Jan Hein Donner vs Vasily Smyslov, Capablanca Memorial (1967)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1126132
Julio Bolbochan vs. Carlos Guimard, 1941: C07 French, Tarrasch, open variation
https://chesstempo.com/gamedb/game/2249569
Nigel Short vs Rafael Vaganian, Montpellier Candidates (1985): C02 French, advance, Paulsen attack
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1124132
Wesley So vs Vladimir Fedoseev, World Cup (2017): C42 Petrov, classical attack
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1885010