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Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1: Test Yourself
- The knight has an L shaped style of moving.
- The queen is one of the most powerful pieces.
- pawn
- oche
- queen
- reduce
- The rook cannot move diagonally.
- fixed score
- Each player has sixteen pieces.
- I've hit the double top.
- Killer is a dart knock-out game.
- Who won the contest?
- bishop
- advantage
- contest
- The goal of a 301 game is to reduce the fixed score to 0.
- knock-out game
- chessboard
- The dartboard is made of sisal.
- The centre of the target is called bullseye.
- checkmate
- The queen combines the movements of the rook and bishop.
- stalemate
- The bishop is allowed to move diagonally.
- double-top
- The king is the most valuable piece.
- king
- board game
- The distance from oche to the target face is about 2.4 m.
- dartboard
- standard
- It is important to estimate the value of the pieces.
- value
- A 301 game starts with a fixed score of 301 points.
- darts
- There are dark and light squares on a chessboard.
- Chess tactics is concerned with gaining advantage through several moves.
- Standard numbering starts with the 20 on top.
- Checkmate is one of the endings of the game.
- rook
- A game of chess may end in stalemate.
- target
- knight
- Chess is a board game.
- powerful
- Each player has got eight pawns at the beginning.
- bullseye
- piece
- I play darts every Friday.