Connected Pawns

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Connected Pawns, two or more pawns on adjacent files - as duo or phalanx, mutually protecting their stop squares, or either as defending or defended member of a pawn chain. Stockfish gives a connected pawn bonus based on the rank of the phalanx or defending pawn.

=See also=
 * Connected Passed Pawns
 * Isolated Pawn
 * Pawn Chain
 * Dispersion and Distortion
 * Duo Trio Quart (Bitboards)
 * Defended Pawns (Bitboards)
 * Connectivity
 * Space

=Forum Posts=
 * CookieCat's pawn structure code by Steven Edwards, CCC, January 07, 2012 » CookieCat
 * Chain, duo, connected by Lyudmil Tsvetkov, CCC, May 02, 2015

=External Links=
 * Connected pawns from Wikipedia

=References= Up one Level