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 * Hanging pawns** are an open, half-isolated duo. It means that they are standing next to each other on the adjacent half-open files, usually on the fourth rank, mutually protecting their stop squares. They share a number of characteristics of weak pawns - they are not directly protected by other pawns and may become targets of attack - but unlike them they have dynamic potential of executing a pawn breakthrough and thus creating a passed pawn (admittedly being an isolated pawn at the same time). The side with hanging pawns also tends to enjoy a space advantage.

//The term "**hanging**" in chess otherwise refers attacked to undefended pieces en prise//.

=The Hanging Pawns formation= Most of the programs do not have a special evaluation of hanging pawns, relying on search to decide if they are an asset or a liability in a given position.

=See also=
 * Hanging Pawns from Isolated Pawns (Bitboards)

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 * [|The Queen's Gambit - Hanging Pawns] from [|Pawn structure at Wikipedia]
 * [|Hanging Pawns, Ten Cents a Pair] review by Larry Tapper from [|ChessCafe.com]
 * [|Hanging Pawns] from [|chessgames.com]
 * The Lounge Lizards - Snakes Can´t Sleep (the hanging), [|Jazz Gipfel 89], [|Liederhalle], [|Stuttgart], July 22, 1989, [|YouTube] Video

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