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• Absolute Seventh — An absolute seventh is a rook on the seventh rank that cannot be attacked or driven away by enemy pawns, thereby securing permanent control of that rank.
• Alekhine's Gun — Alekhine's Gun is a tripled major-piece battery on an open or half-open file with the queen behind two rooks to maximize pressure against a fixed weakness.
• Anastasia's Mate — Anastasia's mate is a checkmate pattern in which a knight and rook combine to trap the enemy king, typically with the knight checking while the rook seals an adjacent file or rank and a friendly or enemy unit blocks one escape square.
• Antichess — Antichess is a chess variant in which captures are mandatory and the player who captures the opponent's final piece or leaves the opponent with a lone king that has no legal moves wins.
• Arabian Mate — The Arabian mate is a checkmate pattern in which a knight and rook combine to trap the enemy king in a corner, with the knight delivering check from a safe square while the rook protects it and seals the adjacent rank or file.
• Atomic Chess — Atomic Chess is a chess variant in which every capture causes an explosion removing the captured piece, all adjacent non-pawn pieces, and the capturing piece itself unless it is a pawn, fundamentally changing piece values and king safety.
• Attacking Monster — An attacking monster is a powerfully centralized piece, usually a knight or bishop, that controls many key squares and generates multiple threats against the enemy king or position.
• Blind Pigs — Blind pigs is the informal name for two rooks doubled on the seventh rank, where they typically create decisive threats against the enemy king and pawns.
• Bongcloud Enjoyer — A Bongcloud Enjoyer is a player who deliberately opens with the Bongcloud (1 e4 e5 2 Ke2) for its entertainment value rather than competitive merit.
• Bughouse — Bughouse is a team chess variant played on two boards where partners immediately pass captured pieces to each other for drops on their own board on any later turn.
• Capture — Capture is the act of moving your piece onto a square occupied by an opponent's piece and removing that piece from the board.
• Centaur — In fairy chess a centaur is a piece that moves either as a knight or as a non-royal king.
• Coquio's Mate — Coquio's Mate is a checkmate pattern in which a queen protected by a knight mates a king trapped on the edge of the board by its own pieces or pawns.
• Corridor Mate — A corridor mate is a checkmate in which a rook or queen attacks the king along an open file or rank while the king’s own pieces or the board edge block escape on the adjacent lines, forming a narrow corridor.
• Cramped Position — A cramped position restricts a player's piece mobility due to insufficient space, typically from their own pawns blocking development or the opponent's pieces controlling key squares.
• Discovered Check — A discovered check occurs when one piece moves aside, revealing an attack on the enemy king from a second piece positioned behind it on the same line.
• Double Check — A double check occurs when two pieces simultaneously check the enemy king, most often via a discovered check in which the moving piece also attacks the king.
• Dovetail Mate — A dovetail mate is a queen mate against a king whose own pieces block its flight squares in a dovetail-like pattern, typically on the edge of the board.
• Endgame — 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.
• Epaulette Mate — 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 Copium — Eval copium is the tendency to rationalize a poor engine evaluation by fixating on minor advantages or the chance the opponent will err.
• Extended Fianchetto — 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.
• Fairy Chess — Fairy chess refers to variants that use non-standard pieces, boards, or rules, created mainly for composing problems and puzzles rather than tournament play.
• Family Fork — A family fork is a knight tactic that simultaneously attacks the enemy king, queen, and one or more rooks.