A pawn storm is a
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in which several
pawns are moved in rapid succession toward the opponent's defenses.
A pawn storm usually involves adjacent pawns on one side of the board, the (a-, b-, and c-) or the (f-, g-, and h-files).
Examples
A pawn storm will often be directed toward the opponent's
king after it has
castled toward one side (e.g.
Fischer–
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, 1958
Fischer vs. Larsen, 1958
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). Successive advances of the pawns on that side might rapidly cramp and overwhelm the opponent's position.
A pawn storm might also be directed at queening a passed pawn; the diagram is taken from a game in which Tigran Petrosian was playing the black pieces against Bobby Fischer. Over the next fourteen moves, Petrosian storms his twin pawns down the a- and b- files, forcing Fischer's .
References
Chess strategy
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