White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.
Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game
The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns
I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.
Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.
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