Usually means: Piece exposed to direct capture.
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  1. en prise: Merriam-Webster
  2. en prise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. en prise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. en prise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. en prise: Wordnik
  6. en prise: Wiktionary
  7. en prise: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. en prise: Dictionary.com
  9. En prise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. en prise: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. En prise: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (en prise)

▸ adjective:  (chess, of a piece) Undefended, able to be captured.

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capturable, seizable, oppugnable, expugnable, tenable, prehensible, vincible, impugnable, takeable, playable, more...

Opposite:
en passant, in passing

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Similar:
capturable, seizable, oppugnable, expugnable, tenable, prehensible, vincible, impugnable, takeable, playable, more...

Opposite:
en passant, in passing



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