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Questions about the particular terminology used in chess
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Is there a word to count one moving by one player?
Another term used is "single-move". From Hooper & Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess (1st ed., 1987):
SINGLE-MOVE, a move by White or a move by Black. This term makes a useful distinction, for the …
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Term for sacrifice that causes opponent to block an escape square?
In PDB the keyword "Lenkung" in German ("steering" in English) is used for the tactic of White forcing Black to move a unit to a specific square where White wants it to be. "Steering" has wider usage …
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Cocking the gun tactical motif (preparing a discovered attack)
This is called a battery.
Hooper & Whyld's The Oxford Companion to Chess says "battery" is "a problem term for one of the two kinds of ambush: a line-piece would command a line if another man of the s …
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Why are capturing key moves "frowned upon"?
One reason is that a capture limits Black counterplay. So, if White had captures as options, the solver might well consider them first.
Another is more aesthetic, that a capture increases White's mate …
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Why is the definition of check not circular?
"If you want to determine whether a player is in check", then consider each opposing unit in turn. If it observes the turn player's king, the turn player is in check. Andrew's answer goes some way to …
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Are pawns pieces?
No, the word "piece" does not include pawns. We can see this in some common phrases. A "minor piece" is a bishop or a knight – pawns are even more minor but don't count as minor pieces.
The word "piec …
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What is zugzwang in chess?
Here are some zugzwang positions which have been shown in answers to earlier threads:
4k3/8/3P1P/8/8/3p1p2/8/4K3 w - - 0 1
First to move loses (posted by GloriaVictis at this question on symmetrica …
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Does this knight and rook mating pattern have a name, or has it occurred before?
That is a nice problem, with rook and knight mating a king at the edge, with one square blocked. Here's a helpmate problem which shows more examples of that phenomenon:
[Title "Forsberg, Revista Roma …
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What’s the origin of “!” & “?”
The following is from Edward Winter's Chess Notes, and reprinted in his Chess Explorations, p.116. I haven't checked the works cited.
(!) might be intended for "[sic]". (!) is still used for that purp …
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