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Questions about the particular terminology used in chess

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What does columns 1-24 mean?

This table can be thought of as a tabular representation of an opening tree of in-theory moves where the rows (y-axis) represent the flow of the game and the columns (x-axis) refer to variations/branc …
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Is it technically a checkmate if the king is not in check, but all moves will result in check?

Putting your king in check is not a legal move as you've realized. Of course, if Black has any OTHER legal moves he can and should play one of them! If a side TO MOVE does not have ANY legal moves, t …
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