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Dominate a diagonal by fixing pawns on the other colour

Fixed pawns leave a connected set of squares available to a bishop.

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Anatoly Karpov – Wolfgang Unzicker

Nice Olympiad Final-A · 1974.06.18 · 1-0

34... h6 · White to move

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What to notice at 34... h6

Karpov’s 35.Bh5 used the light-square routes around Black’s fixed kingside pawns. His queen later joined on h5 and g6 as the pieces coordinated.

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Your thinking first

Name the signal, choose a plan, and test the opponent’s most challenging response.

What do you notice?What is your plan, and why?How could the opponent resist?

Recall and explain

1. Fixed pawns leave a connected set of squares available to a bishop. How would you apply “dominate a diagonal by fixing pawns on the other colour”, and which defensive reply must you check?

Explain it in your own words before revealing.

Make it memorable

A colour is useful only with a route.

Teach this to a friend in one minute. Then return to a different example and look for the same signal without being told its name.

Reflect and revisit

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