Tactics with mobile central pawns

Tactical devices that carry out the central pawns' advance

To carry out your plans, use every tactical possibility you can find. This always holds, including in positions with mobile central pawns.

Some positions look, at first glance, like the central pawns can't advance at all. Look closer, though: a tactical device may still make that advance possible:

• Verlinsky — Rubinstein
• Rubinstein — Mieses
• Botvinnik — Tsvetkov