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Loomis

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Durham, NC, United States

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The value of threats

Submitted by Loomis on Apr 13, 2009 3:07pm.

There are lots of familiar and easily assessable positional features -- bad pawns (isolated, doubled, backward), the bishop pair, central occupation, knight outposts, rooks on open files and the 7th rank, king safety -- and there are some that are mu...Read more »

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