Chess Crossword A-Z

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  1. 2. The Second World Chess Champion.
  2. 5. A row in Chess.
  3. 7. A column in Chess.
  4. 8. When a player has no legal moves except for bad legal moves.
  5. 10. A Chess variant where White has an all-pawn army.
  6. 11. A sacrifice.
  7. 14. A description for a pawn who's neighbouring pawns have left the board.
  8. 17. When the King is attacked and cannot legally move anywhere.
  9. 22. A description for pawns that are stacked and cannot defend each other.
  10. 24. The Sixteenth World Chess Champion.
  11. 25. A kind of checkmate named after shoulder pads.
  12. 26. The Ninth World Chess Champion.
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  1. 1. The Fourth World Chess Champion.
  2. 3. When a piece "sees through" a piece that is attacking something else, eg. a Bishop on d4 guarding a Knight on h8 that is being attacked by a Bishop on g7.
  3. 4. The Thirteenth Women's World Chess Champion
  4. 6. The piece that must be checkmated to win the game.
  5. 9. A chess tactic where a piece moves out of the way, unleashing a discovered attack, and captures pieces as it moves back and forth to check then reveal a discovery again and again. Famous game: Torre vs Lasker 1925.
  6. 12. A piece that can move vertically, diagonally, and horizontally as far as wanted.
  7. 13. When a pawn reaches the last rank of the chessboard, it can promote to a Knight, Bishop, Rook, or Queen, but this is when it doesn't promote to a Queen.
  8. 15. A chess opening where White opens with 1. b4.
  9. 16. A French term meaning "I adjust" as in fixing a piece's alignment to the center of a square.
  10. 18. One of the most commonly used Chess engines (Chess computers).
  11. 19. A horrible move.
  12. 20. An alternative way to play chess, often with new pieces and/or rules.
  13. 21. A new idea in a Chess opening, usually.
  14. 23. A piece that cannot move to a good square, eg. where it would be captured by a lower-value piece, or cannot move legally.