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patzer (en)

(noun) an inept chess player

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patzer


At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers

At the New Yorker
by George Steiner, Robert Boyers


Even the patzer, the wretched amateur who charges out with his knight pawn when the opponent's bishop decamps to R4

—p.298 A Death of Kings (295) by George Steiner
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