What does the saying a pawn in the game?

Answer 1

In the game of Chess, a pawn is a 'man' (piece) of the lowest value, therefore

if you say someone is just a pawn means his place is not important in the scheme of things. It also implies that he has been manipulated.

When Oswald was arrested after President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, he claimed he was just a "patsy" or fall guy; he could have said, "I'm just a pawn."

Answer 2

In Chess, the pawn is, generally speaking, the least powerful of the pieces on the board. The pawn is used as a "foot soldier" by the player. They are an integral and vital part of the game, but are readily sacrificed by a player to achieve objectives. Looking at the pawn in this light reduces the pawn to the level of an instrument or a tool to be manipulated by the player. Now for the analogy. A person who feels like a pawn in a chess match is feeling used or treated as expendable to the purpose of someone else's ends. He's just a tool to be applied for another's gain, and no thought is given to his own worth by the individual making the decisions. The person who is a pawn is just a foot soldier in a big war, and the dangers he confronts and the personal risks to which he is exposed are lost to the shot callers who decide what moves, where it moves to, and when it moves.

Answer 3

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