Lesson 4: Pawn Storms, GM Tejas Bakre, Cyberchess Lectures, 2008

LESSON 4: Pawn Storms  The pawn storm is one of the most effective attacking weapons in chess. This has to be done very carefully as pawns once advanced cannot be moved backwards. Moreover pawn pushes creates weaknesses in one's own camp. When successful the advancing pawns help to breach the enemy king position. In Today's lecture we will see how the ex world champion used the pawn advances to great effect.