HANG, HANGING

To be unprotected and exposed to capture. Slang term to describe a piece left en prise.

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of Chess Siegbert Tarrasch
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef. Nigel Short 2016
For goodness’ sake, how could Kasparov, after all his matches against Karpov, support him in the FIDE President elections? What sort of unprincipled person do you have to be? I would never understand that. Viktor Korchnoi
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
After an upsetting defeat the best psychology for the next game is a placid draw Dr. Vidmar

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