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The right strategies when both players have an isolated pawn in the center (on d4 and d5)

Nice Gabor! This is linked to my Mauritius' travelling incident where my friend (he trolled me) took advantage and humiliated me because I fell near the sewage river. Too bad.
Can you summarize the strategic ideas with a few words? (Words help me retain and organize what I learn.) As best I recall (I'm throwing it out to be corrected as I expect my memory isnt perfect) I studied this in a book of Pachman and what I got from that is
1. activity & suppression of activity of the minor pieces is where the battle is fought.
2. as the endgame approaches the color of the last bishop vs the color of the pawn is important.
3. Sometimes you can organize 2 nights to attack t other isolated pawn - not winning but increases pressure
4. If the center is stable,you can think about expanding with a pawn storm on a wing.
-Bill

Can you summarize the strategic ideas with a few words? (Words help me retain and organize what I learn.) As best I recall (I'm throwing it out to be corrected as I expect my memory isnt perfect) I studied this in a book of Pachman and what I got from that is
1. activity & suppression of activity of the minor pieces is where the battle is fought.
2. as the endgame approaches the color of the last bishop vs the color of the pawn is important.
3. Sometimes you can organize 2 nights to attack t other isolated pawn - not winning but increases pressure
4. If the center is stable,you can think about expanding with a pawn storm on a wing.
-Bill
Dear Bill,
First of all, thank you for your comment. The principles what you wrote down are correct but in my opinion, these are general rules what you can apply in given positions but not concretely in positions when both players have an isolated pawn in the center. It's a more specific situation.
Let's assume that the White isolated pawn is on d4 and the Black one is on d5 (as you can see it in my game in the video). In this case, you need to try to control the 2 open files (c-file and e-file) and try to control the e5 square with one of your knights. These are the most important principles in a position like I showed you in the video and of course, you can try to put pressure on the opponent's pawn, too. An alternative plan could be to reposition one of your knights to the f5 square and create threats around the opponent's king.
I hope you find my answer useful. If you want to learn even more about strategic ideas or any other parts of chess, feel free to subscribe to my Patreon channel where you can find around 15 hours of educational videos and a lot of tactical puzzles, too.
Can you summarize the strategic ideas with a few words? (Words help me retain and organize what I learn.) As best I recall (I'm throwing it out to be corrected as I expect my memory isnt perfect) I studied this in a book of Pachman and what I got from that is
1. activity & suppression of activity of the minor pieces is where the battle is fought.
2. as the endgame approaches the color of the last bishop vs the color of the pawn is important.
3. Sometimes you can organize 2 nights to attack t other isolated pawn - not winning but increases pressure
4. If the center is stable,you can think about expanding with a pawn storm on a wing.
-Bill
Dear Bill,
First of all, thank you for your comment. The principles what you wrote down are correct but in my opinion, these are general rules what you can apply in given positions but not concretely in positions when both players have an isolated pawn in the center. It's a more specific situation.
Let's assume that the White isolated pawn is on d4 and the Black one is on d5 (as you can see it in my game in the video). In this case, you need to try to control the 2 open files (c-file and e-file) and try to control the e5 square with one of your knights. These are the most important principles in a position like I showed you in the video and of course, you can try to put pressure on the opponent's pawn, too. An alternative plan could be to reposition one of your knights to the f5 square and create threats around the opponent's king.
I hope you find my answer useful. If you want to learn even more about strategic ideas or any other parts of chess, feel free to subscribe to my Patreon channel where you can find around 15 hours of educational videos and a lot of tactical puzzles, too.
Nice info uncle ( did not mean to offend you)
Dear Chess Friends,
I played an OTB game in which a really instructive, strategic position occurred on the board, so I made a video about it, starting with the critical position. You can watch the video here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/right-strategies-120190524?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
The main topics what you can learn from this video:
- What should you play for when both players have an isolated pawn in the center?
- How can you exploit the opponent's poor development?
- How can you restrict the opponent's pieces?
- How can you create a mating net with a queen and a knight?
- Various tactical motives
I hope you'll find it useful. If you like it and you want to see my private educational videos, you can subscribe to my Patreon channel. I upload 4-8 hours of videos / month and you can learn about openings, strategies, tactics and endgames, too. I also upload daily puzzles in 4 levels every day.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to write to me.
Kind regards,
Gabor