About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 158. Chapters: Chess opening, Castling, Fork, Pin, Chess endgame, Time control, Glossary of chess, Gambit, Swindle, Zugzwang, Chess handicap, Endgame tablebase, Stalemate, Fortress, Checkmate, Chess theory, Promotion, Pawn structure, Checkmate patterns, Tarrasch rule, The exchange, Wrong rook pawn, Blunder, Draw, Zwischenzug, Touch-move rule, Correspondence chess, En passant, Sacrifice, X-ray, Key square, Opposition, Blindfold chess, Corresponding squares, Passed pawn, Wrong bishop, Perpetual check, Morphy number, Open Game, Triangulation, Fast chess, White and Black in chess, Double check, Maroczy Bind, Time trouble, Simultaneous exhibition, Cross-check, Smothered mate, Closed Game, Back-rank checkmate, Hypermodernism, Tempo, Transposition, Semi-Open Game, Semi-Closed Game, Queen sacrifice, Fianchetto, Fool's mate, Adjournment, Scholar's mate, Isolated pawn, Doubled pawns, Flank opening, Battery, Combination, Compensation, Priyome, King walk, Open file, Exchange variation, Artificial castling, Initiative, Candidate move, Domination, Windmill, Discovered attack, Skewer, Backward pawn, Alekhine's gun, Deflection, Connected pawns, Rundlauf, Permanent brain, Luft, Prophylaxis, Outpost, Ply, Half-open file, Chess blindness, Flight square, Premove, Overloading, Undermining, Romantic chess, Hippogonal. Excerpt: 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. A pin against the king, called absolute because the pinned piece cannot legally move as it would expose the king to check. See relative pin. Describes a piece that is able to move or control many squares. See...
