Look up pawn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pawn most often refers to: Pawn (chess), the weakest and most numerous chess piece in the game Pawnbroker...
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bishop's pawn" or "Black's queen knight's pawn". It is also common to refer to a rook's pawn, meaning any pawn on the a- or h-files, a knight's pawn (on the...
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Glossary of chess (redirect from Rook pawn)
the problem of hanging pawns as related. See also Pawn structure § Queen's Gambit – Isolani. isolated pawn A pawn with no pawn of the same color on an...
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Hardcore Pawn is an American reality television series produced by RDF USA (later Zodiak Media) and Richard Dominick Productions for truTV about the day-to-day...
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Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows...
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The Queen's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. d4 It is the second-most popular opening move after 1.e4 (King's Pawn Game). This...
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A pawn shop is a shop that takes possessions as pledge. Pawn Shop may also refer to: Pawn Shop (album), a 2016 album by Brothers Osborne or the title...
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(French: [ɑ̃ pasɑ̃], lit. "in passing") describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial...
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Pawn Stars is an American reality television series shown on History and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where...
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When the Pawn... is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple. Released by Epic Records in the United States on November 9...
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chess, a passed pawn is a pawn with no opposing pawns to prevent it from advancing to the eighth rank; i.e. there are no opposing pawns in front of it...
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The chess endgame with a king and a pawn versus a king is one of the most important and fundamental endgames, other than the basic checkmates. It is an...
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Promotion (chess) (redirect from Pawn promotion)
promotion is the replacement of a pawn with a new piece when the pawn is moved to its last rank. The player replaces the pawn immediately with a queen, rook...
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pawn is a pawn that has no friendly pawn on an adjacent file. Isolated pawns are usually a weakness because they cannot be protected by other pawns....
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King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. e4 It is the most popular opening move in chess, followed by 1.d4, the Queen's Pawn Game...
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Pawnbroker (redirect from Pawn shop)
(pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker...
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In chess, doubled pawns are two pawns of the same color residing on the same file. Pawns can become doubled only when one pawn captures onto a file on...
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game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least mobile...
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Noatak Airport (redirect from PAWN)
Noatak Airport (IATA: WTK, ICAO: PAWN, FAA LID: WTK) (Iñupiaq: Nuataam Mirvia) is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km)...
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Algebraic notation (chess) (section Pawn promotion)
piece on e5). When a pawn makes a capture, the file from which the pawn departed is used to identify the pawn. For example, exd5 (pawn on the e-file captures...
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A pawn storm, sometimes called a pawn avalanche, is a chess tactic in which several pawns are moved in rapid succession toward the opponent's defenses...
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backward pawn is a pawn that is behind all pawns of the same color on the adjacent files and cannot be safely advanced. In the diagram, the black pawn on the...
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Rick Harrison (category Pawn Stars)
television personality, and owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop which is featured on the History series Pawn Stars. Harrison and his father, Richard Benjamin...
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Chess endgame (redirect from King and pawn endgame)
strategic concerns. In particular, pawns become more important as endgames often revolve around attempts to promote a pawn by advancing it to the eighth rank...
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White appears to sacrifice the c-pawn; however, this could be considered a misnomer as Black cannot retain the pawn without incurring a disadvantage....
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connected pawns are two or more pawns of the same color on adjacent files, as distinct from isolated pawns. These pawns are instrumental in creating pawn structure...
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Les Gold (section Hardcore Pawn)
role on cable and satellite television truTV's reality series, Hardcore Pawn. Gold is a third generation pawnbroker/salesman, the grandson of a pawnbroker...
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Corey Harrison (category Pawn Stars)
cast member of the History TV series Pawn Stars, which documents his work at the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, which he co-owns with...
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Handicap (chess) (redirect from Pawn and move)
odds-giver to deliver checkmate with a specified piece or pawn). Various permutations of these, such as "pawn and two moves", are also possible. Handicaps were...
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Chumlee (category Pawn Stars)
show Pawn Stars, which depicts day-to-day business at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas where he works. Chumlee went to work at the pawn shop...
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