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Chess Terms A-Z - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 131 times
- The average score is 15 of 26
Answer Stats
| Letter | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Piece which moves diagonally | Bishop | 98%
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| K | Put this piece in checkmate to win the game | King | 86%
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| C | Taking a piece with another, usually by landing on its square | Capture | 85%
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| E | When the game in its final phase and there are few pieces left on the board | Endgame | 84%
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| M | Usually short for 'checkmate' | Mate | 83%
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| Q | Chess piece that can move horizontal, vertical, or diagonally | Queen | 83%
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| F | Attacking two pieces at once with one move | Fork | 81%
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| G | Opening where you sacrifice material to gain an advantage | Gambit | 77%
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| R | Purposely giving up a game | Resign | 68%
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| I | A pawn that does not have any pawns able to protect it | {Isolated} pawn | 67%
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| W | Side that moves first in a game | White | 67%
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| N | Method of recording chess moves | Algebraic {notation} | 65%
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| H | Leaving a piece unprotected and free to capture | Hang | 65%
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| P | Tactic when you attack a piece in a way that moving it would expose a more valuable one | Pin | 59%
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| L | Using two rooks to push the king to the edge of the board and into checkmate | {Ladder} mate | 56%
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| U | Promoting a pawn to something besides a queen | Underpromotion | 52%
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| A | Leaving a chess game before you've moved | Abort | 47%
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| Z | Tactic where any move that one makes will worsen the position | Zugzwang | 45%
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| D | Moving a piece that opens another piece's line of attack | Discovered Attack | 44%
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| S | Tactic where you attack a valuable piece, causing it to expose a less valuable one for capture | Skewer | 42%
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| T | Winning a move by threatening an important piece | Tempo | 38%
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| X | Indirectly controlling a square (due a piece being in between) | X-ray | 34%
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| O | Excessive amounts of defense on one piece or square | Overprotection | 23%
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| J | Announced when touching a piece without the intention to move it | J'adoube | 22%
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| V | Chess, with a twist | Variant | 20%
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| Y | Opening variation against the Silician Defense | Yugoslav {Attack} | 13%
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