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Pawn may refer to: - * Pawn (chess), the piece used in the board game chess and - * Pawn (law), another name for a pledge in certain jurisdictions - * Pawnbroker, one who owns a pawnshop - * Idiomatically, an exploited person or character, considered expendable (from the use of the chess piece), he was only a pawn in her game - * The Pawn, a 1980s text adventure - * Pawn (comic), a humorous erotic fantasy webcomic written and drawn by Fredrik K.T. Andersson [1] - * Pawn is a term in Leetspeak (1337) descending from (Own-pwn-pown-pawn) , a variation of pwn - * Pawn (game), a freeware chess program [2] - * Pawn (programming language), an embeddable programming language. - Initial placement of the pawns. ... Pledge is a verb, meaning to promise solemnly, and a noun, meaning the promise or its maker or its object. ... Pledge is a verb, meaning to promise solemnly, and a noun, meaning the promise or its maker or its object. ... A pawnbroker offers monetary loans in exchange for an item of value to the given pawn broker. ... The term exploitation may carry two distinct meanings: The act of utilizing something for any purpose. ... The Pawn is an interactive fiction game by Magnetic Scrolls which was first published by Rainbird in 1986. ... The slang term Pwn (see pronunciation note below), used primarily in the Internet gaming culture, means to soundly defeat an opponent. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


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The Pawn language (3192 words)
An introduction to the pawn language and abstract machine from a programmer's perspective was published in the October 1999 issue of Dr.
pawn is a robust language with a compiler that performs a maximum of static checks, and an abstract machine with (static) P-code verification and dynamic checks.
pawn is free and it is published under the zLib license (this is a liberal license, and it allows using pawn in commercial applications).
Pawn (chess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1298 words)
Pawns are differentiated by the files in which they currently stand, for example one speaks of "white's f-pawn".
Pawns are the source of nearly all of the strategic depth of chess.
A pawn which can't be blocked or captured by enemy pawns in its advance to promotion is a passed pawn.
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