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This is known as the Sivarams Variation
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Yes it is possible. In fact, quadrupled pawns have appeared in many games, such as this one:
Alekhine went on to win. In many games quad pawns can mean a win since many would be very advanced and have promotion threats. Usually the side with them...
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As you can see moves are indicated if good or bad through symbols:
These are the symbols:
!!- brilliant move
!- good move
!?- interesting move
?!- dubious move
?-bad move
??-blunder
Many people make blunders like the castling blunder lik...
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Originally called mantri (a minister or counselor), it could only move to one adjacent diagonal square. When chess came to Europe, the Queen could leap three squares. By 1475 the Queen obtained its present power of moving along the ranks and f...
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The Queen's Gambit is the starting position of many respectable chess opening such as the Queen's Gambit Accepted, the Queen's Gambit Declined and the Slav Defence. Black in most cases prefers not to capture the pawn as he cannot keep it without ...
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The Queen's Gambit Accepted, commonly abbreviated to QGA, is characterized by the opening moves:
1. d4 d52. c4 dxc4The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings classifies the Queen's Gambit Accepted under codes D20 to D29.
The Queen's Gambit i...
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D30: Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD) is a chess opening when after White plays the Queen's Gambit:
1. d4 d52. c4Black declines the pawn offered by White and plays:
2. ... e6By declining the temporary pawn sacrifice, Black erects a s...
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