Books 50 Strategic Techniques Blackburne's Ram

Introduction
The Vanishing Move
The Reserve Passed Pawn
Opening the File
Breakwater
The Illusory Pawn Sacrifice
Triangle Attack
The f3-e4/f6-e5 Barrier
The g6 Exchange
Evacuating the King
Alekhine's Exchange
Geller's Setup
The Cover
Botvinnik's Method
Nimzowitsch's Castling
The Castle
Ng6(Ng3) - bad
Capablanca's Riddle
Imitating the Exchange
The Extra Piece
Weakness of a Square Complex
Rook Placement
Centralizing the Rook
Outpost I
Outpost II
Switching Off the Bishop
Restricting the Bishop's Mobility
A Cage for the Bishop
The Bad Bishop
Transferring the Bishop
Capablanca's Rules
Switching Off the Knight
Restricting the Knight's Mobility
Switching Off the Rook
Boleslavsky's Maneuver
Removing the Cover
Attack on the h-file
Centralizing the Knight
The Réti Battery
The Smyslov Battery
The Lasker Battery
Two Weaknesses
A Cozy Spot for the Queen
Giving Way to the Pawn
Borisenko's Prophylaxis
Botvinnik's Discovery
Opposite-Colored Bishops
Artificial Castling
Blackburne's Ram
Rubinstein's Maneuver
Preemptive Strike

Blackburne's Ram

A ram is a pawn driven head-on into the enemy formation to crack it open. Blackburne's games made the device famous, and the examples follow rams on both wings — from Blackburne's own central thrust to the demolition work in Alekhine–Nimzowitsch, San Remo 1930. The ram works when the pieces stand ready to rush through the gap.