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• AlphaZero — AlphaZero is DeepMind's neural-network chess engine that learned superhuman play through self-play reinforcement learning and defeated Stockfish in 2017.
• 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.
• Brilliancy — A brilliancy is a striking, often sacrificial move or sequence whose originality, depth, and elegance transform the position in an unexpected yet forcing way to produce a decisive advantage.
• Centipawn — A centipawn equals one-hundredth of a pawn's value and serves as the standard unit in engine evaluations to express fractional material or positional advantages.
• Cheap Trick — A cheap trick is an unsound tactical trap or swindle that succeeds only when the opponent overlooks an obvious threat, typically from a lost or inferior position.
• Check — Check occurs when a player's king is under direct attack by an opponent's piece and must be resolved on the next move.
• Checkmate — Checkmate ends the game when a king is in check and has no legal way to escape by moving, capturing the attacker, or blocking the attack.
• Chess Blindness — Chess blindness is a player's temporary inability to see an obvious move, capture, or threat on the board, typically caused by fatigue, time pressure, or fixation on a single idea.
• Chess Grinder — A chess grinder is a player who methodically converts small advantages through patient, technical endgame play and sustained concentration over long games.
• Copium Sac — A copium sac is an objectively unsound sacrifice played mainly as a psychological coping mechanism in a lost or difficult position.
• Defensive Wizard — A defensive wizard is a player exceptionally skilled at defending difficult positions, parrying attacks, and steering games toward draws or counterplay.
• En Prise — A piece or pawn attacked by an opponent and insufficiently defended, allowing the opponent to capture it safely.
• Engine Eval — 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.
• Exchanges — Exchanges occur when both players trade pieces of roughly equal value, such as a knight for a knight or a rook for a rook.
• Fingerfehler — A fingerfehler is an unintentional blunder caused by selecting the wrong piece or square through a slip of the hand or mouse, even though the intended move was sound.
• Flag Hanger — A flag hanger is a player who refuses to resign a lost position in a timed game, continuing solely in hopes that the opponent’s flag will fall before checkmate.
• Flag Rat — A flag rat is a player who deliberately plays low-quality or random moves quickly in fast time controls, hoping to win on time rather than through superior play.
• Initiative — The initiative in chess is the ability to create threats that force the opponent to respond, thereby dictating the pace and direction of play.
• Mouse Slip — A mouse slip is an unintended move in an online chess game caused by accidentally releasing the mouse button over the wrong square.
• Perpetual Check — A perpetual check is a drawing tactic in which one player forces an unending cycle of checks that the opponent cannot escape without allowing repetition.
• Raking Bishops — Raking bishops are a pair of bishops posted on adjacent open diagonals, where they sweep across the board and create powerful attacking or controlling pressure.
• Stalemate Trick — A stalemate trick is a tactical sequence in which a player forces the opponent into a position with no legal moves while the king is not in check, converting a likely loss into a draw.
• Swashbuckling — Swashbuckling denotes a bold attacking style that willingly accepts material deficits or structural damage to gain rapid development, open lines, and lasting pressure against the opponent.
• Threat — A threat is a move or plan that would win material, deliver check, or gain another advantage if the opponent does not prevent it on their next turn.