Prompt 7 of 7
Name a chess term
467 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Novotny— A study idea where you sacrifice a piece on the exact square where two enemy pieces cross, jamming both at once. Composers adore it.
85 ptsDeep Cut363 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- 2700 club
- Abort
- Adjournment
- Adjudication
- Advance Variation
- Advantage
- Alapin Variation
- Albin Countergambit
- Alekhine's Defense
- Alekhine's gun
- Analysis
- Anastasia's mate
- Anderssen's mate
- Annotation
- Announced mate
- Antichess
- Antipositional
- Arabian mate
- Arbiter
- Artificial castling
- Atomic chess
- Attack
- Averbakh Variation
- Babson task
- Bad bishop
- Balestra mate
- Bare king
- Barnes Opening
- Basque chess
- Battery
- Belgrade Gambit
- Benko Gambit
- Benoni Defense
- Berlin Defense
- Berserk
- Bind
- Bird's Opening
- Blackburne's mate
- Blackmar-Diemer Gambit
- Blind pigs
- Blindfold chess
- Boden's mate
- Bogo-Indian Defense
- Bongcloud
- Book move
- Botez Gambit
- Botvinnik System
- Breakthrough
- Breyer Variation
- Brilliancy
- Budapest Gambit
- Bughouse
- Building a bridge
- Bust
- Bye
- Caissa
- Calculation
- Cambridge Springs
- Can opener
- Candidate Master
- Candidate move
- Castling rights
- Catalan
- Centipawn
- Centralization
- Cheapo
- Chess blindness
- Chess clock
- Chess engine
- Chess problem
- Chess960
- Chessboard
- Chessmen
- Chigorin Defense
- Chop wood
- Closed game
- Coffeehouse
- Colle System
- Collinear move
- Compensation
- Composer
- Computer move
- Connected passed pawns
- Consolidation
- Cook
- Corner mate
- Correspondence chess
- Corresponding squares
- Counterattack
- Countergambit
- Counterplay
- Country move
- Cow Opening
- Cramped
- Crazyhouse
- Cross-check
- Crosstable
- Damiano's mate
- Danish Gambit
- Dark-squared bishop
- David and Goliath mate
- Dead position
- Defense
- Demonstration board
- Descriptive notation
- Desperado
- Directmate
- Domination
- Double attack
- Doubled rooks
- Dovetail mate
- Dragon
- Draw by agreement
- Draw death
- Draw odds
- Drawish
- Duck chess
- Duplex
- Dutch Defense
- ECO
- Elephant Gambit
- En prise
- Endgame study
- Englund Gambit
- Epaulette mate
- Equalize
- Evaluation
- Evans Gambit
- Exchange Variation
- Fairy chess
- Fantasy Variation
- FEN
- FIDE Master
- Fingerfehler
- Fish
- Fivefold repetition
- Flank
- Flank opening
- Fog of war
- Forced mate
- Forced move
- Fortress
- Four Knights Game
- Frontier line
- Gardez
- Glicko
- Good bishop
- Grandmaster draw
- Grasshopper
- Greco's mate
- Greek gift
- Grob's Attack
- Grotesque
- Grunfeld
- Half-open file
- Halloween Gambit
- Hand and brain
- Hanging pawns
- Hauptturnier
- Hedgehog
- Helpmate
- Hippopotamus Defense
- Hole
- Hook mate
- Horde
- Hypermodern
- ICBM Gambit
- Icelandic Gambit
- Illegal move
- Imbalance
- Inaccuracy
- Indian Defense
- Insufficient material
- Interpose
- Irregular opening
- J'adoube
- Key move
- Key square
- Kibitz
- Kick
- Kill box mate
- King hunt
- King of the Hill
- King safety
- King walk
- King's Fianchetto Opening
- King's Indian Attack
- King's Pawn Opening
- Knight's tour
- Kotov syndrome
- Kriegspiel
- Ladder mate
- Latvian Gambit
- Legal's mate
- Light-squared bishop
- Liquidation
- Lolli's mate
- Long diagonal
- Loose piece
- Lucena position
- Luft
- Main line
- Major piece
- Mar del Plata
- Maroczy Bind
- Marshall Attack
- Master
- Match
- Mating net
- Max Lange's mate
- Mayet's mate
- Meran Variation
- Miniature
- Minor piece
- Mobility
- Model mate
- Modern Defense
- Morphy's mate
- Moscow Variation
- Mouse slip
- Move order
- Mysterious rook move
- National Master
- Nightrider
- Nimzo-Indian
- Nimzowitsch Defense
- Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack
- Norm
- Novelty
- Octopus
- Odds
- Old Indian Defense
- Open game
- Opera mate
- Opposite castling
- Outpost
- Outside passed pawn
- Over the board
- Overprotection
- Owen's Defense
- Panov Attack
- Patzer
- Pawn break
- Pawn center
- Pawn grabber
- Pawn island
- Pawn majority
- Pawn race
- Petrov Defense
- PGN
- Philidor Defense
- Philidor position
- Pillsbury's mate
- Pirc Defense
- Plachutta
- Ply
- Poisoned pawn
- Ponziani Opening
- Position
- Positional play
- Post mortem
- Premove
- Prepared variation
- Principle of two weaknesses
- Priyome
- Proof game
- Prophylaxis
- Protected passed pawn
- Pure mate
- Queen's Gambit Accepted
- Queen's Gambit Declined
- Queen's Indian Defense
- Queen's Pawn Opening
- Quickplay finish
- Quiet move
- Racing kings
- Raking bishops
- Recapture
- Refutation
- Remis
- Removing the defender
- Repertoire
- Reti Opening
- Reti's mate
- Retrograde analysis
- Romantic chess
- Rook lift
- Rossolimo Variation
- Royal fork
- Samisch Variation
- Sandbagging
- Scalp
- Score sheet
- Scotch Game
- Second
- Selfmate
- Seriesmover
- Seventy-five move rule
- Sharp
- Simul
- Sitzfleisch
- Skittles
- Slav Defense
- Smith-Morra Gambit
- Sofia rules
- Sokolsky Opening
- Sortie
- Spite check
- Squeeze
- St. George Defense
- Stafford Gambit
- Staircase maneuver
- Staunton
- Stem game
- Stonewall
- Sudden death
- Suffocation mate
- Sveshnikov Variation
- Swallow's tail mate
- Swindle
- Swiss system
- Tabiya
- Tablebase
- Takeback
- Tarrasch Defense
- Tarrasch rule
- Tension
- Theory
- Threat
- Three-check
- Tiebreak
- Time pressure
- Torre Attack
- Transposition
- Trapped piece
- Trebuchet
- Triangle mate
- Triangulation
- Tripled pawns
- Troitsky line
- Trompowsky Attack
- Twin
- Two Knights Defense
- Undermining
- USCF
- Valve
- Vienna Game
- Vukovic mate
- Waiting move
- Ware Opening
- Weak square
- Winawer Variation
- Windmill
- Wing Gambit
- Woman Candidate Master
- Woman FIDE Master
- Woman Grandmaster
- Woman International Master
- Woodpusher
- Wrong bishop
- Zaitsev Variation
- Zeitnot
- Zwischenschach
60 ptsRare67 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Algebraic notation
- Armageddon
- Back rank mate
- Backward pawn
- Bishop pair
- Blockade
- Bullet
- Caro-Kann
- Center
- Classical
- Clearance
- Combination
- Decoy
- Deflection
- Development
- Diagonal
- Discovered attack
- Discovered check
- Doubled pawns
- Elo
- English Opening
- Exchange
- Fianchetto
- FIDE
- Fifty move rule
- Flag
- French Defense
- Fried Liver Attack
- Hanging piece
- Increment
- Initiative
- International Master
- Isolated pawn
- Italian Game
- King's Gambit
- King's Indian Defense
- Kingside
- London System
- Material
- Minority attack
- Najdorf
- Notation
- Open file
- Opposite-colored bishops
- Opposition
- Overloading
- Passed pawn
- Pawn chain
- Pawn storm
- Pawn structure
- Perpetual check
- Queenside
- Rapid
- Rating
- Ruy Lopez
- Scandinavian Defense
- Smothered mate
- Space
- Tempo
- Threefold repetition
- Time control
- Touch move
- Trap
- Underpromotion
- Variation
- X-ray
- Zwischenzug
30 ptsSchooler32 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Bishop
- Blitz
- Blunder
- Capture
- Double check
- Draw
- En passant
- Endgame
- File
- Fool's mate
- Fork
- Gambit
- Grandmaster
- King
- Knight
- Middlegame
- Opening
- Pawn
- Pin
- Promotion
- Queen
- Queen's Gambit
- Rank
- Resign
- Rook
- Sacrifice
- Scholar's mate
- Sicilian Defense
- Skewer
- Strategy
- Tactics
- Zugzwang
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Castling
- Check
- Checkmate
- Stalemate