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hanging pawn

British  

noun

  1. chess one of two or more adjacent pawns on central half-open files with no pawns of the same colour on the files immediately to left and right of them

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In an English, Black is saddled with the classic hanging pawn formation and misses the one, best opportunity to ease her woes with a timely 19…c4!.

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