Table of Contents:
Vocabulary Practice
Exercise 1: Test Yourself
- middlegame
- sequence
- Double in first!
- Players usually resign when the situation looks hopeless.
- Middlegame moves are the most difficult to memorise.
- The most prestigious title in chess is the grandmaster.
- His winning sequence contained double top twice.
- diagonally
- chalker
- check
- 50-move rule
- style of moving
- pawn skeleton
- The knight has an L shaped style of moving.
- The bishop is allowed to move diagonally.
- The dartboard is made of sisal.
- legal position
- sisal
- ton
- asset
- When a pawn reaches the eighth rank it can be promoted to any piece.
- Opening is a sequence of initial moves.
- hopeless
- files
- draw
- No piece except the knight can jump over other pieces.
- doubling in
- Damn, too many points at the end, I got busted!
- notation
- opening
- sacrifice
- The highest possible score with three darts is ton eighty.
- combination
- The Immortal Game is known for the bold sacrifices made initially by Adolf Anderssen.
- resign
- grandmaster
- Combinations are sequences of moves to achieve some gain.
- Check is a direct attack aimed at the king.
- Who's gonna be the chalker?
- A game of chess may end in a draw.
- When in check castling is not a legal move.
- A player can claim a draw if no captures were made in the last fifty moves.
- endgame
- It is crucial to develop the pawn skeleton properly.
- The body of a dart is called the barrel.
- Losses should be compensated by different valuable assets.
- ranks
- There are several types of notation.
- busted
- Chessboard consists of ranks and files.
- There are usually just a few pieces on the board during endgame.
- promotion
- barrel
- leap over