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Chess Terms by Name
Below you will find Chess Terms by Name. For your convenience the list is provided in alphabetical order.
- Abandon
- Accelerated Pairing Systems
- Activity
- Adjournment
- Adjudication
- Advanced Pawn
- Advantage
- Ajeeb
- Algebraic Notation
- Analysis
- Annotation
- Announced Mate
- Arbiter
- Attack
- B
- Back Rank Mate
- Backward Pawn
- Bad Bishop
- Battery
- BCE
- BCF
- BCO
- Bishop Pair
- Blindfold Chess
- Blitz Chess
- Blockade
- Blocked
- Blunder
- Book
- Book (Moves)
- Breakthrough
- Caissa
- Calculate
- Calculation Of Variations
- Candidate
- Capture
- Castling
- Center
- Cheapo
- Check
- Checkmate
- Clearance Sacrifice
- Clock
- Closed
- Closed File
- Closed Game
- Combination
- Connected Passed Pawns
- Connected Pawns
- Correspondence Chess
- Counter Gambit
- Counter Play
- Cramped
- Descriptive Notation
- Development
- Diagonal
- Discovered Attack
- Discovered Check
- Distance To Conversion
- Distance To Mate
- Distant Opposition
- Double Attack
- Double Check
- Double Lever
- Double Pawns
- Double Rooks
- Draw
- Drawing Chances
- Drawn Position
- Duffer
- ECO
- Edge
- Elo Rating
- En Passant
- En Prise
- Endgame
- Epaulet Mate
- EPD
- Equal
- Equal Position
- Equalize
- Escape Square
- Euler
- Evergreen Game
- Exchange
- Exchange Advantage
- Fairy Chess
- Family Check
- FEN
- Fers
- Fianchetto
- FIDE
- Fide Master
- Figurine Notation
- File
- Fingerfehler
- First Board
- Fischer Clock
- Fish
- Fixed Pawn
- Flag
- Flank
- Flight Square
- FM
- Fool's Mate
- Forced
- Forced Mate
- Forced Move
- Fork
- Forsythe Notation
- Fortress
- Frontier Line
- Gambit
- Game Of The Century
- Gelbfuhs Score
- Gens Una Sumus
- GM
- GMA
- Good Bishop
- Göttingen Manuscript
- Grading
- Grandmaster
- Great Bare King
- Guéridon
- Half-open File
- Half-pin
- Handicap
- Hanging Pawns
- Harkness Score
- Hastings
- Heavy Piece
- Helpmate
- Hole
- Home Pawns
- Home Side
- Horse
- Howler
- Hypermodern
- ICCA
- ICS
- IGM
- Illegal Move
- Illegal Position
- IM
- Immortal Game
- Indian Defenses
- Initiative
- Inner Pawn
- Inside Chess
- International Arbiter
- International Chess Magazine
- International Grandmaster
- International Master
- International Rating List
- International Woman Grandmaster
- Internet Chess Server
- Interpose
- Interposition
- Interspan
- Interzonal Tournament
- Isolated Pawn
- IWM
- J'adoube
- K
- Karnamak
- Key
- KIA
- Kibitz
- Kibitzer
- Kibitzing
- KID
- King
- King Hunt
- King's Pawn Opening
- Kingside
- Knight
- Knight Fork
- Knight's Tour
- Kt
- L'Échiquier
- Ladder
- Lasker Trap
- Laws Of Chess
- Le Palamede
- Lee
- Legal Move
- Leucopenia
- Lever
- Lewis Chessmen
- Légal's Mate
- Light Bishop
- Light Piece
- Lightning Chess
- Linares
- Little Bare King
- Living Chess
- Long Algebraic Notation
- Long Castling
- Longest Game
- Loose Lever
- Lose
- Losing Chances
- Losing On Time
- Losing The Exchange
- Lost Position
- Lucena Position
- Luff
- Luft
- Major Pieces
- Majority
- Master
- Match
- Mate
- Mate In Two
- Material
- Mating Attack
- Mating Net
- Mating Sacrifice
- MCO
- Mechanical Move
- Median Score
- Mephisto
- Middlegame
- Miniature
- Minor Exchange
- Minor Pieces
- Minority Attack
- Mobility
- Morals Of Chess, The
- Muse Of Chess
- My System
- Mysterious Rook Move
- N
- National Chess Day
- National Master
- Neo-romantic
- Neustadtl Score
- New In Chess
- Nimzo-indian Defense
- NM
- Norm
- Normal Opening
- Normal Position
- Notation
- Novice
- Obstructive Sacrifice
- Occupation
- Official Rules Of Chess
- Open
- Open File
- Open Game
- Open Tournament
- Opening
- Openings
- Opposite Colored Bishops
- Opposition
- OTB
- Outpost
- Outside Passed Pawn
- Over The Board
- Over-protection
- Overextension
- Overload
- Overworked Piece
- P
- Pairings
- Parry A Check
- Parsing
- Passed Pawn
- Passive
- Patzer
- Pawn
- Pawn Break
- Pawn Centre
- Pawn Chain
- Pawn Grabbing
- Pawn Island
- Pawn Push
- Pawn Roller
- Pawn Storm
- Pawn Structure
- PCA
- Perpetual Check
- Perpetual Pursuit
- Petite Combination
- PGN
- Phalanx
- Piece
- Pig
- Pin
- Plan
- Ply
- Point Count
- Poisoned Pawn
- Position
- Positional Chess
- Positional Sacrifice
- Preventive Sacrifice
- Promotion
- Protected Passed Pawn
- Q
- QGA
- QGD
- Queen
- Queening A Pawn
- Queening Square
- Queenside
- Quiet Move
- R
- Rank
- Rapid Chess
- Rat
- Rating
- Refute
- Remis
- Repetition Of Position
- Resign
- Retrograde Analysis
- Round Robin
- Royal Fork
- Royal Game
- Ruy Lopez
- Sacrifice
- Schacchia Ludus
- Scholar's Mate
- Score
- Score Sheet
- Sealed Move
- Semi-open File
- Sham Sacrifice
- Short Castling
- Simplify
- Simul
- Simultaneous Display
- Skewer
- SM
- Smothered Mate
- Solkoff Score
- Sonneborn-berger Score
- Soul Of Chess
- Space
- Span
- Spanish Game
- Spite Check
- Stalemate
- Staunton Chessmen
- Strategy
- Study
- Style
- Sudden Death
- Swindle
- Swiss System
- Symmetry
- Tablebase
- Tactics
- TD
- Tempo
- Theory
- Threat
- Three-time Repetition
- Tie-breaking System
- Tietz System
- Time
- Time Control
- Time Pressure
- Time Trouble
- TN
- Top Board
- Touch Move
- Tournament
- Tournament Book
- Trade
- Transposition
- Trap
- Triangulation
- Tripled Pawns
- Turk, The
- Udemann Code
- Ufimtsev Defense
- Under Promotion
- Undoubling
- Unit
- USCF
- Variation
- Waiting Move
- WCC
- Weak Square
- Weakness
- WGM
- Whisper
- Wiener Schachzeitung
- Win
- Winning Chances
- Winning Move
- Winning Position
- Winning The Exchange
- Woodpusher
- Zeitnot
- Zugzwang
- Zürich 1934
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