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The Process of Decision Making in Chess Volume 2: Practice positions and solutions. Position 11.4
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Aug 2, 2018
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Then RH8 for a possible H pawn push, I would go after mate on the H and G files, get white to compromise his pawn structure or at least hold 2 minors in defense. No expert but H2 would be my target.
Solve the challenge below:
Diagram 11.4- searching for weak squares as part of our positional observation, we immediately see the “black holes” in our camp- all of black’s dark squares on the kingside and center are weak, due to the checkers-like pawn structure, with pawns on light squares. The problem for black is that our dark square bishop has been exchanged, leaving us with no easy way to compensate for our weaknesses. We call this type of position a “dark square weakness complex.”
Notice that a similar situation happens for white too, though not as severely; his light squares are a bit weak (c4 mostly, and the a6-f1 diagonal is unavailable) with no useful way to compensate for those weaknesses since his light square bishop was also exchanged.
Challenge: Can black fight back for the dark squares after all, or if not, is there a way to divert attention away from his weaknesses to those of white?