Anti-Principles: Doubled Pawns

Generally doubled pawns are said to be bad, against basic sound principles of play. But I reckon doubled pawns are worth it in order to gain a swap of queens, or any other piece you want to tempt the opponent to swap. This anti-principle works with opponents rated upto at least 1600. Reduce your opponents attacking power and aim for a winning endgame. Endgame ignorance seems to abound at this level. Good luck! 

Doubled pawns are by no means always bad.  At any level.

Doubled Pawns are usually a handicap because they have less collective mobility than un-doubled Pawns. But that's only part of the story. Every doubled Pawn will give you what's called a hybrid open file (the file where the Pawn used to stand is now open on your end). Also, every time a Pawn moves (to double-up or not) it now controls a different pair of squares. For example, a Pawn that gets doubled from b2 to c3 now controls the center square d4.

Yes, they're compact and control a lot of adjacent squares (which is especially nice if they're central squares, or part of a king hunt).  Also they can provide shelter from checks (particularly queens).  And in some cases they can be more difficult to attack than undoubled pawns.  Oh yes, and they can also increase the pawn mass around your king, thus making it harder for your opponent to break through with an attack.

Offering doubled pawns can tempt opponents also.

Tripled pawns in front of the king are a huge advantage in bullet chess.

God, I love it when wafflle does that! (it's as close as any of us mere mortals are ever gonna get to Motorboat Guy). 

Waffle is indeed the master of the paradox-puppy.

can someone translate paradox-puppy and Motorboat guy cause today my mind is slow to pickup nuances

Not sure what motorboat guy is.  Dog is this thing: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/advice-dog

thks wafflemaster...appreciated

Motorboat Guy was a truly beautiful and inspiring sight.  We'll not see his like on the forums ever again (at least, not until the next time Conq shows up).

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Double Pawns can form a barrier to keep opponent pieces away. The worst possible time in a game to have them would be in the End Game.

that is not even a principle.... 

Its like saying you can use the principle of forking king and queen with your horse

This looks like an interesting article

https://home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Articles/doubled_pawns.htm

it completely depends on the position

The position.... in the opening it may not be that much of an issue but as the game progresses towards the End Game it becomes the difference between winning or losing the game.

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