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8 Unnecessary Pawn Moves

Learn while playing: set up the chessboard and the book next to it and off you go

There is some strategic risk involved indeed (Black complies with a somewhat cramped position

illustrating an important pattern

Cavallaro: Sherlock Holmes and the Mysteries of the Chess World Holz \r\n• Open CenterA Strange Enigma Is the Chess World The origins of the Royal Game go back centuries. And throughout its diverse and multi faceted history, controversies and mysteries have arisen. Some have been resolved; many do not. Did Alekhine really succumb to a piece of meat that was stuck in his throat? And Paul Morphy passed after a walk on a hot New Orleans afternoon? What if the great Sherlock Holmes and his successors applied ironclad logic to these and