Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Remained a Pawn...
Cooper "played a tremendous game," Jacobs said yesterday. "Although I remained a pawn up throughout the game, my opponent activated his pieces and made a decisive incursion the thirtieth move." With a ranking of 2148, Jacobs was the highest rated player in the tournament which lacked many of the top Harvard chess stars. Cooper's rating was in the 1300's. "I had a premonition I was going to blunder," Jacobs said, "but I never thought I'd get beat this bad, especially by a B player...
...Weinstein) went after a pawn when he shouldn't have: moving his queen near the end was probably the losing move." Frankle said...
...responded to Weinstein's attack with one of his own in the center of the board. "Weinstein looked really surprised," he said. "I just broke through the center He was behind in material, and I had a good passed pawn and my bishop was better." A few move later Weinstein resigned...
...game's got to be one of my favorities," Corey said. "There weren't say real blunders by either side; it was a demonstration of a strategy, not technique." Corey played a Sicilian Defense (. . . . P-QB 4) and took full advantage of a weakness in opponent Jon Edward's pawn structure...