Many of Tigran Petrosian's best games were won by seemingly innocuous pawn pushes in positions with little or no obvious advantage for him, here are a few of my favorites.
24..g5! J Bednarski vs Petrosian, 1968 (C05) French, Tarrasch, 30 moves, 0-1
22. b4! Petrosian vs Korchnoi, 1971 (A20) English, 41 moves, 1-0
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