What is the name of these pawn formations

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I see these a lot.

What are these called?!

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idk

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This specific pawn structure doesn't have a name. You can name it.

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i am dumb

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White is completely winning.

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Without kings I mean

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#6, but no one said it was white to move. And if you say “no one said it was black to move” be quiet.
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I asked Google and it said that there is no specific name for it.

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Yeah so we can name it.
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#7 no one said it was black to move (nah just joking XD)
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Name it the symmetrical pawn structure

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The one on the right is the Quart-Grip.

Try Caruana vs L'Ami, Tata Steel, Wijk aan Zee, NL, 2013. Position after move 7.

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You must have done so much research ngl

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I did find some info, and some page just called it a backward pawn:

https://chesscul.com/en/backward-pawn/

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blueemu wrote:

The one on the right is the Quart-Grip.

Nice find, thanks!

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If you watch chess commentary, some broadcasters refer to the formations on the left as “inverted triangles” and the ones on the right as the “bathtub formation.”

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2balls

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GauthamKishoreTS wrote:

You must have done so much research ngl

I've read (and re-read) Pawn Power by Kmoch, so I knew what the formation was called... it was just a matter of finding some on-line reference to document it.

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Sargon_Three wrote:

I did find some info, and some page just called it a backward pawn:

https://chesscul.com/en/backward-pawn/

You could name it the "holey moley" formation, since each side gets a strong hole and a weak hole.