Chess Vocab
This is the term of the piece that moves in straight lines, either horizontally or vertically
What is the rook?
A chess variant where the starting positions of the back rank pieces are randomized.
What is Fischer Random / Chess 960?
When you touch a piece and you choose not to move it.
What is touch move?
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
Time margin for arriving late to a game
What is 1 hour?
Special situation where king and rook move simultaneously in one move
A four player game played on two boards. When a player captures a piece, it is passed to their teammate who can place it on their board.
What is Bughouse?
Time Penalty for illegal move
What is two minutes?
Who is Ju Wenjun?
Federation allowing two handed moves
What is USCF?
Situation where any legal move a player makes will worsen their position
What is Zugzwang?
Capturing an enemy piece causes an explosion, removing all adjacent pieces (including the capturing piece)
What is atomic chess?
Penalty for arriving late to a chess game(FIDE)
What is disqualification?
This is the youngest undisputed world chess champion.
Who is Gukesh D?
Number of moves you have after an illegal move to call it (USCF)
What is 10?
Tactic where a player chooses an intermediate move that poses an immediate threat that must be answered before playing the expected move
What is Zwischenzug?
A chess variant where Black starts with the regular chess army and White with nothing but 36 pawns.
Making your second illegal move of the game in FIDE rules.
What is immediate forfeit?
This person held the world champion title for a whopping 27 years!
Who is Emanuel Lasker?
Number of minutes left on the clock such that you don't have to write down moves(FIDE)
Strategic concept that refers to making moves to prevent your opponent's plans before they happen
What is Prophylaxis?
A variant of chess where each player can only see squares to which they can move.
What is fog of war?
Article of clothing that Magnus wore that got him disqualified at a tournament (now is legal).
What are jeans?
The world champion known as "The Beast of Baku"
Who is Garry Kasparov?
Alternative piece to represent a queen when promoting
What is an inverted rook?