Chess Dictionary — E

Terms starting with E (18)

Elo Farmer Intermediate

An Elo farmer is a player who deliberately seeks games or sections against much weaker opponents to inflate their rating through easy wins.

Elo Gremlin Intermediate

An Elo Gremlin is the imaginary mischievous force players invoke to explain sudden, unexplained drops or stagnation in their Elo rating despite apparently solid results.

En Passant Intermediate

A special pawn capture allowing a pawn to take an enemy pawn that has just advanced two squares, as if it had moved only one square.

En Prise Beginner

A piece or pawn attacked by an opponent and insufficiently defended, allowing the opponent to capture it safely.

Endgame Beginner

The endgame is the final phase of a chess game after most pieces have been traded, when play centers on pawn promotion and delivering checkmate with the remaining forces.

Engine Eval Beginner

Engine eval is a chess engine's numerical assessment of a position, usually shown in pawn units where +1.00 means white stands a pawn ahead.

Engine Junkie Intermediate

An engine junkie is a player who over-relies on chess engines for analysis and move choices, often at the expense of independent thinking and deeper positional understanding.

Engine Monkey Intermediate

An engine monkey is a player who blindly follows computer engine recommendations in analysis or play without grasping the underlying ideas or strategy.

Engine Whisperer Intermediate

An engine whisperer is a player or analyst highly skilled at interpreting chess engine lines and evaluations, then translating them into practical human plans and decisions.

Epaulette Mate Intermediate

An epaulette mate is a checkmate in which two rooks or queens attack the enemy king from adjacent squares on the same rank, blocking its lateral escapes like shoulder ornaments.

Eval Bar Surfer Intermediate

An eval bar surfer is a player who repeatedly checks the engine evaluation bar during online play to steer move selection instead of relying on independent calculation.

Eval Copium Intermediate

Eval copium is the tendency to rationalize a poor engine evaluation by fixating on minor advantages or the chance the opponent will err.

Eval Hostage Intermediate

An eval hostage is a position where an engine's evaluation is dominated by one forcing line or material factor, obscuring the true strategic assessment until that factor is resolved.

Evergreen Game Intermediate

The Evergreen Game is the 1852 encounter between Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne, famed for its spectacular queen sacrifice and attacking brilliance.

Excelsior Advanced

Excelsior is a chess problem theme in which a single pawn advances from its starting square through successive moves to promotion, typically enabling a surprising mate.

Exchange Intermediate

An exchange is a trade of pieces of equal value, most often a rook for a knight or bishop.

Exchanges Intermediate

Exchanges occur when both players trade pieces of roughly equal value, such as a knight for a knight or a rook for a rook.

Extended Fianchetto Advanced

An extended fianchetto develops a bishop to a3, a6, h3 or h6 to control a long diagonal from farther out on the flank than a standard fianchetto.