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 * En prise** (from French "can be taken") describes a piece or pawn exposed to a material winning capture by the opponent. This is either a hanging piece, a not defended pawn, a piece attacked by a lower valuable attacker, or a piece or pawn defended insufficiently. Any least valuable attacker (LVA) would gain a positive score from a static exchange evaluator on the target square, which also applies to a knight defended by a pawn and attacked by bishop and rook, where the majority of attackers and a least valuable attacker of similar value makes the knight en prise.

With pins, overloading, and other tactical motives in mind, whether keeping or putting a piece en prise is a [|blunder] or a sacrifice is a matter of search, the latter may require some depth left to differentiate.

=See also=
 * Hanging Piece
 * Loose Piece
 * MVV-LVA
 * Quiescence Search
 * Square Control
 * Static Exchange Evaluation

=External Links=
 * [|En prise - Glossary of chess from Wikipedia]
 * [|en prise - Wiktionary]
 * [|Earliest Occurrences of Chess Terms] by [|Edward Winter]
 * [|En Prise - Chess Basics]
 * [|En prise] from ChessBase News, April 13, 2012

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