the power of the pawns comes to light towards the end of the game. My favourite piece of all time is the queen, and in some cases u are able to get another 1/2 queens! so the point of the pawn is 2 make more queens

Ponar, i think that the point of the pawn can be much more that make more queens. The pawn offers you the posibility of various kind of strategies during the game, wich can be decisive to lose or win a game !!!

yea i agree joaoporto, but the pawns r good 2 get queens at the end of the game, they can decide who wins a game (if u no what i mean)

joaoporto

yes they are of more use, but i solely enjoy collecting another queen near the ending of my game, thats y i think they are important

yes maniac 2008 and ponar, they are very important to get queens.

What i mean is that if you get a good pawn structure during the game it can be crucial to win it, even if the pawn dont turn a queen. Dont you agree?

yes i totally agree with that, i have won a few games using the fact that 3 pawns were in a specific part of the board, so all in all, pawns are very important

I think the importance of pawns is knowing when to push them and when to leave them be.  I can think of many games where I lost because I moved a pawn too early or pushed it too far without being able to support it.  The fact that you can't move a pawn backwards is crucial.  I think the key to using pawns well is understanding the many ways that they can be usefull.  In the begining of the game, they block up files and keep the knights from getting too close to your valuable peices.  If it wasn't for well placed pawns, knights would wreak havoc.

Another thing that makes them so powerful is the fact that they are worth so little.  This means that you can use them to push more valuable peices around because most people won't accept a trade with them. 

But it all comes down to timing, because somtimes a pawn push that seems like a good idea, in fact fataly weakens a strong position.

great speech

He'rs a game I played the other day.  I kept staring at it trying to figure out how I could get his pawns while protecting mine.  I'm sure this is obvious to a lot of people on here but I didn't see it for a while.  I suddenly realized how much a passed pawn was worth, smacked myself on the forehed, and sacrificed my rook.

good

Thanks, Edziak.

I think what you wrote can give us some ideas of the really power of the pawn.

There is a way to battle where you focus mainly on the bishops instead of pawns to control the center. It's called Hypermodern Strategy, and it looks something like this...

 

 

 

 

 

White is clearly demonstrating the hypermodern strategy in this position while black takes a classical approach. Notice the pawns are held back to clear a path for the bishop's diagonal movements. together the bishops attack all the squares in the center in this position.

so many showin how important the pawns are

yes,Dauntless07 thats a very good position for white; but with the strong bishops position, i still can see 3 pawns in a very good position too !!!!!!! 

WAYNE1984 wrote: pawns on there own are useless but together can be useful,getting a good pawn structure in an opening can set u up for a good middle game and end game.

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thats what i think too.

Because pawns move more slowly than other pieces, and because there are so many of them, they provide the structure of a position, its skeleton, as it were, which usually does not change abruptly and so provides a framework for strategic thinking.

KingsMove wrote:

Pawns are just pawns in the opening and middlegame, they are expendable and unimportant but in the ending they become the absolute epicenter of play. Never underestimate the power of passed pawns.

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 I believe that pawns are just as important in the opening and middle game as in the end-game. Wrong moves of pawns is just as bad anytime. Otherwise: i agree

true true

TheMoonwalker, i agree with you: "Wrong moves of pawns is just as bad anytime".

so everyone agrees they are very much needed ?