Pawn Storming

Keep in mind this was 1 minute game and white had 150 Elo on black.

Thoughts on pawn storming? Pawn storming techniques? Have a game that was won through pawn storming? Been the victim of a pawn storm? Want to type "pawn storm" just because it sounds bad*ss?

Do it here. (:

A Johnstown flood-sized pawn wall of death raining mayhem? Yeah, totally.

Anyway, I'm surprised no one else commented on this thread. I would really like other people's opinions on pawn storming.

After my opponent castles, sometimes I start moving my minor pieces out of the way and line up my rooks to begin a pawn storm.  Am I the only one who does this? I really wish I knew some openings based on a pawn storm, if such a thing exists.

I also was hoping you guys would post some games that were decided because of a pawn storm.

When people ask for "opinions" on certain techniques or ideas in chess I never really know what to say. At the end of the day, it should be obvoius to any player that 'pawn storms' have their place in chess, effective if correctly assembled in the right position. 

The real question is how should one go about 'assembling' such an attack and in what sort of position. Well, here is, i think, a few important features:

1) control over and/or closed centre:  any wing attack is generally countered in the centre, therefore, by controlling the centre ourselves we limit our oppenants ability to counter. 

2) peices in support:  A successful pawnstorm will often open the kings position (e.g. open a/h files), which needs to be exploited by rooks/queens, etc. Therefore, you need to have peices ready to strike (or sometimes even the threat of them supporting the storm will be enough.)

3) Oposite side castling: If you both castled kingside then a pawnstorm against the enemy king has the inherent risk of weakening your own king. Thus, its better to try a storm in positions where you have yet to castle or where you are to castle to the oposite side. In my experience, the person who castled queenside is more vunerable to storms than the person who went kingside. 

4) tempo:  if you can initaite a pawn storm by attacking pieces then you can gain valueable tempo over your openant when those peices have to retreat. pawns move slowly, so any way of making their advanced faster will help strengthen your attack.

as for examples: this game http://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-showcase/well-i-enjoyed-it has many features of a pawnstorm, the pawns where pushed here because of tactical considerations (i.e 20.f5) which is something I failed to mention above.