What are minority attack and majority
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I think minority is when you attack with b4-b5 to make weakness on c6. And majority is when you have a pawn more on a side of the board.
ValentinOstenfeld8 wrote:
I think minority is when you attack with b4-b5 to make weakness on c6. And majority is when you have a pawn more on a side of the board.
A minority attack occurs between pawn groups. Often, one side will end up with more pawns on one side than the other.
When the attacking pawns are outnumbered (i.e., 2 versus 3 or 3 versus 4), it is a minority attack. The minority hope to provoke weakness in the majority.
When the attacking pawns outnumber their opposing side pawns, it is a majority attack. The majority attack can create passed pawns.
These pawn groupings become of more importance in the endgame.
There are books out there on pawn play. It is not something than can be reduced to a few tips.
"... This is one of White's most celebrated plans - the so-called Minority Attack, in which White's queenside pawns lay siege with b4-b5 to their numerically superior black opposition. A typical sequence is …"
"White has some advantage, but not as much as some books pretend. …" - GM Neil McDonald (2001)