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On certain Internet chess servers, such as Chess.com and Lichess, this kind of move is marked as an "inaccuracy", denoting a weak move, appearing more regularly than with most annotators. A sacrifice leading to a dangerous attack that the opponent should be able to defend against if they play well may receive a "?!".
Much literature about chess endgames has been produced in the form of books and magazines. A bibliography of endgame books is below. Many chess masters have contributed to the theory of endgames over the centuries, including Ruy López de Segura, François-André Philidor, Josef Kling and Bernhard Horwitz, Johann Berger, Alexey Troitsky, Yuri Averbakh, and Reuben Fine.
This glossary of chess explains commonly used terms in chess, in alphabetical order.Some of these terms have their own pages, like fork and pin.For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of named opening lines, see List of chess openings; for a list of chess-related games, see List of ...
A defending piece is said to be "tied down" to the pawn, since it must stay rooted to the spot until the attacking piece has moved. The second reason is that the square immediately in front of the isolated pawn is weak, often providing an excellent outpost for a knight or other enemy piece, since it is immune to attack by a pawn.
The Trompowsky Attack [a] is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5. White prepares to exchange the bishop for Black's knight, inflicting doubled pawns upon Black in the process.
Authors with five books or more have a sub-section title on their own, to increase the usability of the table of contents. When a book was written by several authors, it is listed once under the name of each author. See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z)
In chess, a fortress is an endgame drawing technique in which the side behind in material sets up a zone of protection that the opponent cannot penetrate. This might involve keeping the enemy king out of one's position, or a safe zone the enemy cannot force one out of (e.g. see the opposite-colored bishops example).
De ludo scachorum ('On the Game of Chess'), also known as Schifanoia ('the "Boredom Dodger"'), [1] is a Latin-language manuscript on the game of chess written around 1500 by Luca Pacioli, a leading mathematician of the Renaissance.