Talk:Pawn storm

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I don't think the article illustrates pawn storms at all well. In the first place, a pawn storm most often is directed against the enemy king. Examples are seen in many varations of the Sicilian (e.g., the Velimirovic Attack, the Yugoslav Attack against the Dragon (e.g. Fischer-Larsen), the English Attack against the Scheveningen) and King's Indian Defenses (the Saemisch, sometimes the Averbakh, and the main lines (...f5-f4, ...g5-g4, etc. - e.g., Taimanov-Najdorf)). Neither of the two examples given shows this.

Secondly, neither of the two examples demonstrates a pawn storm at all. We are told that in Fischer-Petrosian Black rapidly advanced his pawns, forcing White's resignation, but the game continuation is not given, nor even a link to the game. The other position given does not, as yet, show a pawn storm at all. White has placed his pawns on d5, e4, and f4. That may become a pawn storm if White advances further, but as yet I would not call it a pawn storm at all. Now Mariotti-Gligoric - that was a pawn storm. Bisguier-Larsen is a good example of a consummated central pawn storm. Krakatoa (talk) 13:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Agreed. The Fischer-Petrosian example is example of a pawn roller (not storm). Ihardlythinkso (talk) 22:19, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Then I think that pawn roller needs to be incorporated into this article or have its own article. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 23:18, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Not even sure if yall are even on wikipedia anymore, but finally, after 10 years, I decided to add your suggestions. I created the pawn roller article as a redirect and added the information necessary onto this article. I also fixed the example's description as an example of a pawn roller, rather than an example of a pawn storm. SonOfYoutubers (talk) 05:02, 19 November 2023 (UTC)