John Littlewood (chess player) once a month in the English Chess Federation magazine. His brother Norman also played in four Olympiads, and his son Paul, an International Master, won the British Chess Championship in 1981. Littlewood lived in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, and had seven children and eight grandchildren. John Littlewood (chess player) John Eric Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006. Perhaps his most famous game was the one he lost against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings International Chess Congress 1961/2. Littlewood
Connected pawns are called hanging pawns. There is a saying that two connected passed pawns on the sixth rank are stronger than a rook. This is true if the other side has nothing but a rook to defend against the pawns (and the defender cannot immediately capture one of the pawns). In this diagram, White wins: Connected pawns In chess, connected pawns are two or more pawns of the same color on adjacent files, as distinct from isolated pawns. These pawns are instrumental in creating pawn structure because, when diagonally adjacent, like the two rightmost white pawns, they form a pawn chain,