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In the terminology used by Hans Kmoch, a **Sentry** is a pawn controlling the square lying on the path or front span of an opponent's pawn, thereby preventing it from becoming a passed pawn.

=See also=
 * Stop Square
 * Pawn Spans from Pawn Pattern and Properties in Bitboards
 * Stop and Telestop

=External Links=
 * [|Sentry Chess - the pawn can sometimes capture northward]
 * [|sentry - Wiktionary]
 * [|Sentry from Wikipedia]
 * [|Sentry (comics) from Wikipedia]
 * [|Sentry (Robert Reynolds) from Wikipedia]

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