Learn 75 essential chess terms in this comprehensive 27-minute video. Explore concepts from active pieces to X-ray attacks, covering strategies, tactics, and game variations. Gain insights into chess notation, piece movements, pawn structures, time controls, and player rankings. Use convenient timestamps to quickly access specific terms and enhance your chess vocabulary and understanding of the game.
Overview
Syllabus
- Intro.
- Active Piece (1).
- Algebraic Notation (2).
- Analysis (3).
- Backward Pawn (4).
- Bad Bishop (5).
- Battery (6).
- Blindfold Chess (7).
- Bullet (8).
- Blitz (9).
- Rapid (10).
- Bughouse (11).
- Book Move (12).
- Pin (13).
- Variant (14).
- Combination (15).
- Connected Pawns (16).
- Connected Rooks (17).
- Counterattack (18).
- Counterplay (19).
- Discovered Attack (20).
- Discovered Check (21).
- Equalize (22).
- Evaluation (23).
- The Exchange (24).
- Exposed King (25).
- Fork (26).
- Flag Someone (27).
- NM - National Master (28).
- CM - Candidate Master (29).
- FM - FIDE Master (30).
- IM/GM - International Master/Grandmaster (31/32).
- Gambit (33).
- Good Bishop (34).
- Half-Open File (35).
- Hanging (36).
- Major Piece (37).
- Minor Piece (38).
- Hole (39).
- Inaccuracy (40).
- Initiative & Tempo (41 & 42).
- Isolated Pawn (43).
- King Hunt (44).
- Long Diagonal (45).
- Main Line (46).
- Master (47).
- Material (48).
- Mouse Slip (49).
- Open File (50).
- Open Game/Closed Game (51/52).
- Opening Repertoire (53).
- Outpost (54).
- Passive Piece (55).
- Pawn Chain (56).
- Pawn Island (57).
- Pawn Majority (58).
- Pawn Structure (59).
- Pre-Move (60).
- Sac (61).
- Semi-Open File (62).
- Sharp (63).
- Skewer (64).
- Smothered Mate (65).
- Solid (66).
- Technique (67).
- Time Control (68).
- Time Delay (69).
- Time Pressure (70).
- Trap (71).
- Tripled Pawns (72).
- Underpromotion (73).
- Variation (74).
- X-Ray (75).
- Outro.
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