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A file containing one or more pawns belonging to the opponent, and none belonging to oneself.

After losing a game I play the next one better. After losing the 2nd game I play like a lion. After 3 defeats in a row, anyone can beat me! Eduard Gufeld
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences. Magnus Carlsen
2010
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion. Garry Kasparov
2016
We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort. Mikhail Tal
1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it. Robert Fischer
1971

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