What is Blockading? Part 1 of 4
When you blockade a passed or isolated pawn you put one of your pieces in front of the pawn to accomplish two things:
- Stopping the pawn from advancing and,
- launching a plan to eliminate the pawn.
In the diagram you will notice that white's knight blockades black's d pawn by occupying the d4 blockading square which prevents the pawn from advancing. White's king and e3 pawn guard d4.
In part two, I will cover restraining the pawn, part three will cover the attack, part four will be examples of good and bad blockaders.
