8 Chess Pawn Structures To Study Pawn structure, in the words of IM Jeremy Silman, is "the positioning of the whole pawn mass. Also referred to as the pawn skeleton. This positioning of the pawns is what usually dictates the types of plans available in a given position due to open files, space, pawn weaknesses, etc." According to the Philidor quote, “pawns are the soul of … [Read more...] about 8 Chess Pawn Structures To Study