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patzer slang.|ˈpɑːtsə(r), ˈpætsə(r)|
Also potzer.
[Origin uncertain: cf. G. patzen to bungle.]
In chess: a poor player, a ‘rabbit’.
1948Chess Rev. Apr. 5/2 Immediately, spectators inquired, ‘Didn't you see that win?’ ‘Yes,’ was the impudent reply. ‘But, with such a potzer, I draw when I will, not when he wills.’ 1959S. Afr. Chess-Player VII. 11 That patzer Grivainis got Evans with an opening trap, but now the difference in strength begins to show. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 378/1 Patzer, an inferior chess player. Although said to be from the Yiddish, there is no Yiddish, German, or Hebrew word or word combination to suggest it. Prob. from ‘patsy’ with the familiar ‘-er’ ending added. 1962Chess 12 Mar. 190/1 When I meet these Russian potzers I'll put them in their place. 1965tr. A. D. de Groot's Thought & Choice in Chess p. v, Why do masters find the good moves that patzers overlook? 1966New Yorker 12 Nov. 70/1 He was at work on what in the language of the park is called a ‘potzer’—a relatively weak player with an inflated ego. 1970J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) v. 41 ‘Do you..play chess, Mr...Brand..stetter?’ ‘I'm what's called a potzer.’ 1972Daily Tel. 28 July 15/4 So Fischer after beating off a ferocious attack..‘played like a patzer’, said one American Grandmaster, ‘went to sleep on the job’, said another. 1978New Statesman 27 Oct. 556/2 He appears (or perhaps pretends) to be as tempted as the average patzer, by any old poisoned pawn, and has to have his folly explained to him. |