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Doubled pawns
Clumsy — but they open a file.
Doubled pawns (two of your pawns on the same file) are usually:
A
Less flexible and hard to defend, but they hand you a half-open file.
B
Completely irrelevant — pawn position never affects the plan at all.
C
Impossible to reach in a normal game played between two sensible players.
D
A clear advantage, because two pawns on a file defend each other well.