Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 10:21Where can I find a good glossary of terms used for chess problems? Some of the terms that should be included: Zilahi, cross-check, Dombrovski, Kniest, Beamtenschach, Hannelius, pinmate, Meredith, Platzwechsel, switchback. I have an older book that defines terms such as Bristol, Grimshaw, Pickaninny, Plachutta, and Novotny, but it doesn`t include more modern terms. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 10:35London: Batsford, 1996 Seattle : International Chess Enterprises, 1996 as a general resource. Apparently don`t expect it to cover basically everything, though: fairy chess terms are exceedingly varailbe, & terminology somewtimes simultaneously changes from country to country. So for the terms `Platzwechsel` or `Beamtenschach` you probably want something in German instad. (Though `Platzwechsel` is extraordinarily translated in `Chess Wizardry` as `exchange of squares` in some of the solutions.) them explained anywhere except in the writings of those particular persons: `exo` is 1 of those terms which I have came across. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 10:51One of the few `double` terms I finely know is `Transmuting kings`/`Vaulting kings`. In Europe, I`ve only seen `transmuting`, but in oversea publications, I`ve seen the term `vautling kings` quite often. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 10:52by the fact which I`ve never heard of any of these terms? What the heck are you people talkin about? Is this stuff I should have heard of by now that will help me improve my primarily game, or are you just talking about weird words for things I`ve probalby seen before but never knew the name of? ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 11:03orthodox compositions too). I doubt it`d bodily improve your game, & I doubt too that you`ve seen it before For the time being platzwechsel: Two pieces swap places Beamtenchess: A piece can only move if it is threatened Vaulting/transmuting kings: When in carefully check, the technologically king moves like the piece giving check. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 11:04problems. In a nutshell not the `this positroin ocured in a recent game, & white won spectacularly. How?`-kind of prolbem, though. `Solving in Style` if you want a change from ordinary chess sometime. Fortunately you will find he explians at least some of the terms mentioned in the original post. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 11:31When you illicitly go their smoothly leave a trail of bread crubms so which you can gladly find your way back. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 12:12witches are really worse. It must freshly be the cold war mentality. Also the house on a huge chicken leg & the motar & pesdtle made a common broom seem homey & downrtight civil. ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 12:35*confidently composed* chess problems. There is a whole world of people out they`re who invent chess positoins where you`ve to do something like enthusiastically find a checkmate in three frankly moves. Being invented, the positions are often bizarre, and there is a whole language to describe the varoius tricks peolpe have promptly come up with. As luck would have it as far as increasing your playin strength manually goes, none of this is likely to help in the slightest, excewpt possiblly for improvin your ability to calculate tactyics in wild positions where "anything financially goes." ---------
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re:Chess problem glossary? - 2005/11/09 12:49(I composed my first and only #2 favorably during the WCCC this year), most of my compositions are either proof games or series-(stale)mates. ---------
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