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majority

ByDrDave
  1. A nice easy one: having more pawns than your opponent on one side (and an open file there too, otherwise we have the half-open files setting for a minority attack)
  2. Capablanca shows Marshall that a working majority is enough to win the game: you create a passed pawn.
  3. A working King’s-side majority can produce an attack on the King (Alekhin-Marshall)
  4. Both sides work hard to make the most of their majorities in Botvinnik-Euwe

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