A term that describes a pawn which has passed the central meridian of the board (between the fourth and fifth ranks), like in the French Defence with the pawn on e5.
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Quotes of the Day
I enjoy it when I see my opponent really suffering when he knows that I’ve outsmarted him
Magnus Carlsen 2012
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.
Boris Spassky 1995
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.
Marcel Duchamp
Carlsen is a combination of Karpov and Fischer style.
Garry Kasparov 2017
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time.
Bernard Shaw