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Hi everybody
does the bishops pair deserves sacrifice one pawn to achieve that??
in the both cases:
2 B vs 2 N
2 B vs B&N
Thanks
Mar 15, 2018
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I wouldn't sacrifice a pawn for the bishop pair. Being a pawn down the best you can do is force a draw in the endgame with the two bishops, so no.
Not usually, but with chess there’s ALWAYS exceptions. If the position is open and two bishops will have a lot of activity on open diagonals against two knights in that case it may very well be worth a pawn. For example: Once I had two knights and a an extra pawn against two bishops and I was the one fighting for a draw!