How To Use Pawns In Chess

Black played very interesting move Rc3, daring white to take and white actually took. After takes black got dangerous protected passed pawn. Let's see if it's worth it. Qd3, takes, Rf2, Qd4. Exchanging queens makes sense because stopping passed pawn is going to be more difficult in that case. We have takes, takes, Bf1 and now c2. Black starts pushing the pawn. Obviously if takes, then takes, takes and Bc5 loses the game. Instead of that, white played Rc1 and now takes, takes and very, very beautiful sacrifice Rc4. Threatening to promote, white accepted the sacrifice, takes, Bc5, pinning the rook. Black has only bishop versus two rooks. But look at these pawns. Kg2, takes, takes, b3, white rook cannot stop these two pawns. So he resigned.