Glossary

109 articles on key chess ideas and concepts:

A

• Advantage
• Analysis
• Analyst
• Annotating
• Attack

B

• Bishop
• Blockade
• Blunder
• Breakthrough

C

• Capture
• Castling
• Center
• Centralization
• Check
• Checkmate
• Chessboard
• Closed games
• Combination
• Combinational vision
• Compensation
• Complication
• Consolidation
• Correct combination
• Counter-chances
• Counterattack
• Counterplay

D

• Defense
• Demarcation line
• Discovered check
• Double attack
• Double check
• Doubled pawns
• Draw

E

• En passant
• Endgame
• Equalization
• Evaluation

F

• Fianchetto
• First-move advantage
• Fixing
• Forcing

G

• Gambit
• Game

H

• Hanging pawns

I

• Initiative
• Isolated pawn

K

• King
• Knight

L

• Loss
• Luft

M

• Mad piece
• Major pieces
• Maneuver
• Maneuvering
• Material
• Mating net
• Middlegame
• Minor pieces
• Minority attack
• Move

O

• Odds
• Open file
• Open games
• Opening
• Opposite-colored bishops
• Outpost
• Overprotection

P

• Passed pawn
• Passing the move
• Pawn
• Pawn chain
• Pawn majority
• Pawn storm
• Pawn structure
• Piece coordination
• Piece development
• Piece value
• Pieces
• Pin
• Plan
• Position

Q

• Queen
• Quiet move

R

• Rook

S

• Second hand
• Semi-open games
• Simplification
• Space
• Square
• Stalemate
• Starting position
• Strategy

T

• Tacking
• Tactics
• Technique
• Tempo
• The exchange
• Theoretical draw
• Theory
• Threat
• Time
• Trade
• Transposition
• Trap
• Triangulation

V

• Variation

W

• Waiting move
• Windmill

Z

• Zugzwang