opposite castle- using your opponents pawn for own castle

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aoeuaoeu123

Have you guys seen any games where the black pawn makes it to the 2nd rank quickly, but the white king just hides behind it? - Or the other way around. 

I recall a Carlsen game where he did that, really early in the game(I forget which one. Maybe one of you knows).

Do you guys or gals have any other examples?

 

omnipaul

There's a variation in the King's Gambit where this happens pretty early.  White ends up sacrificing three pawns to get black's e-pawn all the way over to h2, where the white king then hides out on h1.  I doubt it's sound, but it's fun.

 



Sqod

Yes, I've seen that a lot in games I've seen in the past year, though oddly I never noticed (or saw) it until the past year, for some reason, despite all my years of playing. I don't have any examples handy, but thanks for pointing out that common pattern that I'll start marking when I see it from now on. Usually that situation happens during a kingside pawn storm on the castled king, and usually the (White) king hides at g1 behind the (Black) g-pawn at g2. The reason that reponse caught my attention is that I used to always play g3 as a response to keep that attacking pawn from capturing anything, but if good players are handling that common situation differently, I probably should be, too.

Drawgood
Yep, that's a very important strategy