patzer , also: potzer

A patzer, also known as a woodpusher, is the lowest form of chess player.

I have over the years spent time in casinos on four continents as a dilettante and a patzer.

He is no patzer, or fish, as the lesser players are known; he often pockets $30 to $100 in a day.

Against him were chess players ranging from patzer to master and international master.

"He told us that there were three alternatives: bus, cab and train," Ms. Patzer said.

I am, after all, a patzer.

Patzer got his first work experience in the Internet boom years of 1998-2000, working for Getawebsite.com and Miadora.com (an online jewelry store).

How does a patzer feel while playing Gary Kasparov, the chess champion of the world, in a simultaneous exhibition?

After a number of engineering positions and internet startups, Patzer founded Mint.com in March 2006.

Accordingly to Patzer, he was splitting his time between the new venture and his position at Intuit.

(In Washington Square Park, a fish, or a patzer, is an easy mark.)

Mr. Patzer's problem is his movie and DVD habit.

In September 2008, Patzer was listed in Inc. magazines Top 30 Under 30.

Peter Kiehlmann and Holger Patzer.

According to Patzer, he got the inspiration for Mint.com in late 2005 after being frustrated with how difficult it was to use the Intuit Quicken product.

The meeting led to funding, and Patzer launched Mint.com at the TechCrunch40 conference a year later, in September 2007, winning the $50K first prize.

Mint.com is an American free web-based personal financial management service for the US and Canada created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer.

Less common alternatives include the retreat 3...Qd8 and 3...Qe5+ (the Patzer Variation).

In May 2012 Waggener acquired Patzer PR, a Munich-based healthcare consultancy.

Aaron Patzer is an internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mint.com, the financial management tool with was acquired by Intuit and has over 10 million users.

In 2011, TechCrunch reported that Patzer's next project would be called "Swift" and was exploring the "feasibility of building a personal maglev vehicle transit system."

The latest round of $14M was closed on August 4, 2009, and reported by CEO Aaron Patzer as preemptive.

Among the riders today were Dave and Colleen Patzer, a couple from Milwaukee who arrived at Newark and were headed for Manhattan.

Bill Patzer, associate portfolio manager of the Merrill Lynch Global Value fund, says the workload at large investment firms limits the effectiveness of in-house analysts.

Elsewhere, a former LCI student and rugby union player, Ashley Patzer, was named CIS player of the year for 2006.