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 * Color weakness** denotes a situation in which one of the players does not have sufficient control over the squares of a certain color. This is usually caused by the lack of a bishop of that color, coupled with the unfortunate pawn structure. In such situations, the opponent may use squares of that color to penetrate the opponent's position. Hans Kmoch defines insufficient occupation of the dark respectively light squares by pawns and bishop as black poverty or //Melanpenie// respectively white poverty or //[|Leukopenie]//.

=Examples= Typical examples of a color weakness are:
 * positions after the exchange of a fianchettoed bishop (this is especially painful when it was a defender of the castled king)
 * black exchanging a dark squared bishop in the [|French], the [|Slav] or the [|Caro-Kann] defences
 * white exchanging a light-squared bishop in the [|Queen's Gambit Declined] or in the [|Colle]
 * white exchanging a dark-squared bishop in the [|King's Indian], most notably in [|Sämisch]

=External Links= > with Dennis Chambers and [|Lincoln Goines], [|The Bottom Line], [|New York City], February 25, 1990 > media type="youtube" key="DRjjDjj9GvI" width="560"
 * [|Color blindness from Wikipedia]
 * Bob Berg & Mike Stern Band - [|Chromazone], [|YouTube] Video

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