To be unprotected and exposed to capture. Slang term to describe a piece left en prise.
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Quotes of the Day
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.
David Bronstein
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.
G. Borg 2016
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion.
Garry Kasparov 2016
With the modern computer age, there are some new ideas, but the principles are basically the same… I try not to over-focus on preparation.
Magnus Carlsen 2012
When Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!
Boris Spassky
