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This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, like fork and pin. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see chess problem terminology; for a list of chess related games, see chess variants.
Also see Swiss tournament and Round-robin tournament.
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- Adjective
- Adjournment (games)
- Albin Countergambit
- Alekhine's gun
- Alexander Kotov
- Arabic language
- Armageddon chess
- Aron Nimzovitch
- Aron Nimzowitsch
- Artificial castling
- ASCII
- Automaton
- AVRO tournament
- Back rank checkmate
- Back-rank checkmate
- Backward pawn
- Battery (chess)
- Benko Gambit
- Bent Larsen
- Best response
- Bishop (chess)
- Blindfold chess
- Blitz chess
- Blunder (chess)
- Bobby Fischer
- Boden's Mate
- Boden's mate
- Bruce Pandolfini
- Budapest Gambit
- Bughouse chess
- Bullet chess
- Bye (sports)
- Candidate move
- Carlos Torre
- Caro-Kann Defence
- Castling
- Catechism
- Caïssa
- Cheating
- Check (Chess)
- Check (chess)
- Checkerboard
- Checkmate
- Checkmate pattern
- Chess
- Chess clock
- Chess endgame
- Chess engine
- Chess handicap
- Chess master
- Chess middlegame
- Chess notation
- Chess Olympiad
- Chess opening
- Chess piece
- Chess problem
- Chess problems
- Chess rating system
- Chess strategy
- Chess tactic
- Chess tactics
- Chess terminology
- Chess theory
- Chess title
- Chess tournament
- Chess variant
- Chess variants
- Chess World Cup 2007
- Chess960
- Chessboard
- Chessgames.com
- Closed Game
- Colle System
- Combination (chess)
- Compensation (chess)
- Computer chess
- Connected pawns
- Correspondence chess
- Cross-check
- Daniel Harrwitz
- Danish Gambit
- David Bronstein
- David Vincent Hooper
- Decoy (chess)
- Deflection (chess)
- Descriptive notation
- Desperado (chess)
- Discovered attack
- Domination (chess)
- Double check
- Doubled pawns
- Dover Publications
- Draw (chess)
- Draw by agreement
- Dutch Defence
- Edward Lasker
- Efim Geller
- Elo rating
- Elo rating system
- En passant
- Endgame tablebase
- English Defense
- English Opening
- Englund Gambit
- Epaulette mate
- Exchange (chess)
- Exchange variation
- Fairy chess piece
- Fast chess
- Fianchetto
- FIDE
- FIDE Master
- Fifty-move rule
- Flank opening
- Flight square
- Fool's mate
- Fork (chess)
- Fortress (chess)
- Four Knights Game
- French Defence
- French language
- Fried Liver Attack
- Gambit
- Game clock
- Garry Kasparov
- German language
- Giuoco Piano
- Glossary of chess
- Grandmaster (chess)
- Greco Counter Gambit
- Greek gift sacrifice
- Géza Maróczy
- Half-open file
- Harry Golombek
- Hippopotamus Defence
- History of chess
- Indian Defence
- Indian defence
- Initiative (chess)
- Intel
- Interference (chess)
- International Master
- Interzonal
- Isolated pawn
- Italian Game
- Johann Löwenthal
- John Nunn
- José Raúl Capablanca
- Kenneth Whyld
- Key square
- Kibitzer
- King (chess)
- King walk
- King's Gambit
- King's Indian Attack
- Kingside
- Knight (chess)
- Knight's tour
- Kotov syndrome
- Larry Evans
- Latin
- Latvian Gambit
- List of chess terms
- Lucena position
- Luft
- Maróczy Bind
- Match (chess)
- Najdorf Variation
- Nigel Short
- Nimzo-Indian Defence
- Nimzowitsch
- Nomen nescio
- Norm (chess)
- Online chess
- Open file
- Opera game
- Opposition (chess)
- Outline of chess
- Outpost (chess)
- Overloading (chess)
- Passed pawn
- Pawn (chess)
- Pawn storm
- Pawn structure
- Perfect play
- Perpetual check
- Petroff's Defense
- Philidor position
- Piatigorsky Cup
- Pin (chess)
- Ply (chess)
- Postal system
- Promotion (chess)
- Prophylaxis (chess)
- Punctuation (chess)
- Queen (chess)
- Queen's Gambit
- Queenside
- Rapid chess
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov
- Raymond Keene
- Resignation
- Richard Réti
- Romantic chess
- Rook (chess)
- Rook pawn
- Rules of chess
- Ruy Lopez
- Sacrifice (chess)
- Samuel Boden
- Scandinavian Defence
- Scholar's mate
- Scholar's Mate
- Semi-Closed Game
- Semi-Open Game
- Shatranj
- Sicilian Defence
- Sicilian Defense
- Siegbert Tarrasch
- Skewer (chess)
- Smothered mate
- Stalemate
- Staunton chess set
- Stonewall Attack
- Swindle (chess)
- Swiss tournament
- Tarrasch rule
- Template Chess
- Template talk Chess
- Tempo (chess)
- The exchange (chess)
- The Turk
- Threefold repetition
- Time control
- Touch-move rule
- Tournament
- Tournament director
- Two Knights Defense
- Two knights endgame
- Undermining (chess)
- Underpromotion
- Unorthodox opening
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Wilhelm Steinitz
- Windmill (chess)
- Wing Gambit
- Woman FIDE Master
- Woman Grandmaster
- Wrong bishop
- Wrong rook pawn
- X-ray (chess)
- Zero-sum game
- Zugzwang
- Zwischenzug
- Alexander Kotov
- Aron Nimzowitsch
- Bent Larsen
- Bobby Fischer
- Bruce Pandolfini
- Daniel Harrwitz
- David Bronstein
- David Vincent Hooper
- Edward Lasker
- Efim Geller
- Garry Kasparov
- Géza Maróczy
- Harry Golombek
- Johann Löwenthal
- John Nunn
- José Raúl Capablanca
- Larry Evans
- Nigel Short
- Rashid Nezhmetdinov
- Raymond Keene
- Richard Réti
- Samuel Boden
- Siegbert Tarrasch
- Vladimir Kramnik
- Wilhelm Steinitz
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