pawn or not to pawn, that is the question
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Mar 6, 2018
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I think it completely depends on the position. It's always important to keep in mind King safety and the potential of any sac's by your opponent to open up your King, however I have recently started making such a retreat square for my dark squared bishop when playing the London System with white with quite a good success rate.
When in the opening game and you want to castle King side, do you think it is better to advance the pawn in front of the rook leaving a space for the bishop to move into or keep the pawns in a line and move the king's pawn to get the bishop out of the way? What will help more later it he game?