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It's totally a free pawn, Bobby.
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Yeah, it's a famous game (game 1) from the World Chess Champtionship in 1972.
Fischer was flustered about various conditions of the tournament and made an amateurish blunder by taking a "free" pawn with his bishop, which Spassky then immediately trapped.