Suechting — Carls

Hamburg, 1912

• Hugo Süchting (1874–1916)German master who competed in the great international round-robins of the early 1900s, among them Carlsbad 1911.
• Carl Carls (1880–1958)German master, later an international master, who gave his name to the Bremen System in the English Opening.

In this position a pawn strike followed against the central link in Black's chain.

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1. 15.
2. To avoid something worse, Black must now accept the removal of its central pawns: one moves to the flank, the other is eliminated
3. 15.
4. Otherwise White would get a very strong attack on the kingside, for example:
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9. The central pawns have now become passed pawns, and they need to be set in motion
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14. This is what a fixed center can turn into
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16. Black now loses the b7-pawn as well, after which White's win is only a matter of time
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21. And White won