← Middlegame Strategy

Let the structure choose the plan

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This is the Carlsbad structure — and it comes with a plan attached. White's is the minority attack: push b4-b5 to trade on c6 and leave Black with a weak, fixed c-pawn to besiege. Begin it.

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