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Train/Do Not Put the King In Front of the Pawns

Do Not Put the King In Front of the Pawns

Same game, two moves later, and now you defend. The natural-looking plan, running the king around to block the pawns from the front, loses. The bishop belongs on the long a8 to h1 diagonal, and the king belongs beside the pawns, not in front of them.

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