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Blindfold chess

Games; Chess

A variant of chess in which players are not allowed to see the board. In fact, usually there is no board at all, and the players play a virtual game where they each mentally track the positions of ...

Back rank weakness

Games; Chess

A situation where a player's back rank is insufficiently protected, and so the player spends a large amount of time defending high value pieces from attack.

Artificial castling

Games; Chess

When a player conducts a series of moves that end up with their king and rook in the positions they would be in as a result of a regular castle manoeuvre.

Blockade

Games; Chess

Moving a piece in front of an enemy pawn in order to prevent it from moving forward and to protect the piece from attackers on the same file.

Automaton

Games; Chess

A mechanical machine that is able to play a game of chess. In all but a few cases these machines were hoaxes created in the 19th century.

Bind

Games; Chess

A situation in which one player has dominance over an area of the board that is hard for the other player to penetrate.

Back rank

Games; Chess

The rank closest to the player, which houses all the non-pawn pieces at the beginning of the game.

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