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by trykondev 2012 days ago
The parent comment is correct -- "offering a pawn" means allowing the other player to capture a pawn without yourself having an immediate way to regain it, usually banking on some kind of other piece activity as compensation for the material.

On move 9 it is a simple exchange of pawns and since the material remains equal after the resulting sequence of exchanges we would not refer to that as offering a pawn.

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Yep, I looked at it again. My desire to be impressed with grandmaster foresight got the better of me.