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EZCORP, Inc. is an American pawn shop operator based in Austin, Texas which provides services across the United States and Latin America. [3] It is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange [4] and is the second largest pawn shop operator in the U.S. [5] after Cash America International.
Purdy gave the value as 1½ points in the opening and increasing to 2 points in the endgame. In the middlegame the value would be closer to 1½ than to 2. [4] Edmar Mednis gave the value as 1½ in the endgame. [5] [6] Max Euwe put the value at 1½ in the middlegame and said that two pawns are more than sufficient compensation for the exchange. [7]
The term 'pawn' refers to the value when the player has one more pawn than the opponent in a position, as explained in Chess piece relative value. The integer 1 usually represents some fraction of a pawn, and commonly used in computer chess are centipawns, which are a hundredth of a pawn. Larger evaluations indicate a material imbalance or ...
On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...
On "Pawn Stars," a rare piece of rock 'n roll history had the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop's employees literally drooling. The man walked into the shop and explained, "So, this is a 1941 Gibson SJ-200.
In chess, a relative value (or point value) is a standard value conventionally assigned to each piece. Piece valuations have no role in the rules of chess but are useful as an aid to evaluating a position. The best-known system assigns 1 point to a pawn, 3 points to a knight or bishop, 5 points to a rook and 9 points to a queen. Valuation ...
Two-thirds of the estimated value is the usual extent of a loan; four-fifths is advanced on silver, and five-sixths on fine gold. State and municipal bonds may be pledged up to a maximum of L150, the advance being 80% of the value, and a fixed interest of 6% is charged upon these securities.
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