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hanging pawn

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

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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