Name a chess term

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Hint 1. 467 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 7 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Armageddon

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Novotny · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Novotny One in a Krillion 100 pts

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Best rare answers

  • Novotny 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Abort 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Advantage 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Analysis 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Annotation 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Antichess 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Arbiter 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Attack 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Armageddon 60 pts
  • Blockade 60 pts
  • Bullet 60 pts
  • Caro-Kann 60 pts
  • Center 60 pts
  • Classical 60 pts
  • Clearance 60 pts
  • Decoy 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Castling 10
  • Check 10
  • Checkmate 10
  • Stalemate 10

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Name a chess term

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 363 ● Rare · 67 ● Schooler · 32 ● Plankton · 4
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Novotny +100
Deep Cut +85 363 answers — tap to reveal
  • 2700 club +85
  • Abort +85
  • Adjournment +85
  • Adjudication +85
  • Advance Variation +85
  • Advantage +85
  • Alapin Variation +85
  • Albin Countergambit +85
  • Alekhine's Defense +85
  • Alekhine's gun +85
  • Analysis +85
  • Anastasia's mate +85
  • Anderssen's mate +85
  • Annotation +85
  • Announced mate +85
  • Antichess +85
  • Antipositional +85
  • Arabian mate +85
  • Arbiter +85
  • Artificial castling +85
  • Atomic chess +85
  • Attack +85
  • Averbakh Variation +85
  • Babson task +85
  • Bad bishop +85
  • Balestra mate +85
  • Bare king +85
  • Barnes Opening +85
  • Basque chess +85
  • Battery +85
  • Belgrade Gambit +85
  • Benko Gambit +85
  • Benoni Defense +85
  • Berlin Defense +85
  • Berserk +85
  • Bind +85
  • Bird's Opening +85
  • Blackburne's mate +85
  • Blackmar-Diemer Gambit +85
  • Blind pigs +85
  • Blindfold chess +85
  • Boden's mate +85
  • Bogo-Indian Defense +85
  • Bongcloud +85
  • Book move +85
  • Botez Gambit +85
  • Botvinnik System +85
  • Breakthrough +85
  • Breyer Variation +85
  • Brilliancy +85
  • Budapest Gambit +85
  • Bughouse +85
  • Building a bridge +85
  • Bust +85
  • Bye +85
  • Caissa +85
  • Calculation +85
  • Cambridge Springs +85
  • Can opener +85
  • Candidate Master +85
  • Candidate move +85
  • Castling rights +85
  • Catalan +85
  • Centipawn +85
  • Centralization +85
  • Cheapo +85
  • Chess blindness +85
  • Chess clock +85
  • Chess engine +85
  • Chess problem +85
  • Chess960 +85
  • Chessboard +85
  • Chessmen +85
  • Chigorin Defense +85
  • Chop wood +85
  • Closed game +85
  • Coffeehouse +85
  • Colle System +85
  • Collinear move +85
  • Compensation +85
  • Composer +85
  • Computer move +85
  • Connected passed pawns +85
  • Consolidation +85
  • Cook +85
  • Corner mate +85
  • Correspondence chess +85
  • Corresponding squares +85
  • Counterattack +85
  • Countergambit +85
  • Counterplay +85
  • Country move +85
  • Cow Opening +85
  • Cramped +85
  • Crazyhouse +85
  • Cross-check +85
  • Crosstable +85
  • Damiano's mate +85
  • Danish Gambit +85
  • Dark-squared bishop +85
  • David and Goliath mate +85
  • Dead position +85
  • Defense +85
  • Demonstration board +85
  • Descriptive notation +85
  • Desperado +85
  • Directmate +85
  • Domination +85
  • Double attack +85
  • Doubled rooks +85
  • Dovetail mate +85
  • Dragon +85
  • Draw by agreement +85
  • Draw death +85
  • Draw odds +85
  • Drawish +85
  • Duck chess +85
  • Duplex +85
  • Dutch Defense +85
  • ECO +85
  • Elephant Gambit +85
  • En prise +85
  • Endgame study +85
  • Englund Gambit +85
  • Epaulette mate +85
  • Equalize +85
  • Evaluation +85
  • Evans Gambit +85
  • Exchange Variation +85
  • Fairy chess +85
  • Fantasy Variation +85
  • FEN +85
  • FIDE Master +85
  • Fingerfehler +85
  • Fish +85
  • Fivefold repetition +85
  • Flank +85
  • Flank opening +85
  • Fog of war +85
  • Forced mate +85
  • Forced move +85
  • Fortress +85
  • Four Knights Game +85
  • Frontier line +85
  • Gardez +85
  • Glicko +85
  • Good bishop +85
  • Grandmaster draw +85
  • Grasshopper +85
  • Greco's mate +85
  • Greek gift +85
  • Grob's Attack +85
  • Grotesque +85
  • Grunfeld +85
  • Half-open file +85
  • Halloween Gambit +85
  • Hand and brain +85
  • Hanging pawns +85
  • Hauptturnier +85
  • Hedgehog +85
  • Helpmate +85
  • Hippopotamus Defense +85
  • Hole +85
  • Hook mate +85
  • Horde +85
  • Hypermodern +85
  • ICBM Gambit +85
  • Icelandic Gambit +85
  • Illegal move +85
  • Imbalance +85
  • Inaccuracy +85
  • Indian Defense +85
  • Insufficient material +85
  • Interpose +85
  • Irregular opening +85
  • J'adoube +85
  • Key move +85
  • Key square +85
  • Kibitz +85
  • Kick +85
  • Kill box mate +85
  • King hunt +85
  • King of the Hill +85
  • King safety +85
  • King walk +85
  • King's Fianchetto Opening +85
  • King's Indian Attack +85
  • King's Pawn Opening +85
  • Knight's tour +85
  • Kotov syndrome +85
  • Kriegspiel +85
  • Ladder mate +85
  • Latvian Gambit +85
  • Legal's mate +85
  • Light-squared bishop +85
  • Liquidation +85
  • Lolli's mate +85
  • Long diagonal +85
  • Loose piece +85
  • Lucena position +85
  • Luft +85
  • Main line +85
  • Major piece +85
  • Mar del Plata +85
  • Maroczy Bind +85
  • Marshall Attack +85
  • Master +85
  • Match +85
  • Mating net +85
  • Max Lange's mate +85
  • Mayet's mate +85
  • Meran Variation +85
  • Miniature +85
  • Minor piece +85
  • Mobility +85
  • Model mate +85
  • Modern Defense +85
  • Morphy's mate +85
  • Moscow Variation +85
  • Mouse slip +85
  • Move order +85
  • Mysterious rook move +85
  • National Master +85
  • Nightrider +85
  • Nimzo-Indian +85
  • Nimzowitsch Defense +85
  • Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack +85
  • Norm +85
  • Novelty +85
  • Octopus +85
  • Odds +85
  • Old Indian Defense +85
  • Open game +85
  • Opera mate +85
  • Opposite castling +85
  • Outpost +85
  • Outside passed pawn +85
  • Over the board +85
  • Overprotection +85
  • Owen's Defense +85
  • Panov Attack +85
  • Patzer +85
  • Pawn break +85
  • Pawn center +85
  • Pawn grabber +85
  • Pawn island +85
  • Pawn majority +85
  • Pawn race +85
  • Petrov Defense +85
  • PGN +85
  • Philidor Defense +85
  • Philidor position +85
  • Pillsbury's mate +85
  • Pirc Defense +85
  • Plachutta +85
  • Ply +85
  • Poisoned pawn +85
  • Ponziani Opening +85
  • Position +85
  • Positional play +85
  • Post mortem +85
  • Premove +85
  • Prepared variation +85
  • Principle of two weaknesses +85
  • Priyome +85
  • Proof game +85
  • Prophylaxis +85
  • Protected passed pawn +85
  • Pure mate +85
  • Queen's Gambit Accepted +85
  • Queen's Gambit Declined +85
  • Queen's Indian Defense +85
  • Queen's Pawn Opening +85
  • Quickplay finish +85
  • Quiet move +85
  • Racing kings +85
  • Raking bishops +85
  • Recapture +85
  • Refutation +85
  • Remis +85
  • Removing the defender +85
  • Repertoire +85
  • Reti Opening +85
  • Reti's mate +85
  • Retrograde analysis +85
  • Romantic chess +85
  • Rook lift +85
  • Rossolimo Variation +85
  • Royal fork +85
  • Samisch Variation +85
  • Sandbagging +85
  • Scalp +85
  • Score sheet +85
  • Scotch Game +85
  • Second +85
  • Selfmate +85
  • Seriesmover +85
  • Seventy-five move rule +85
  • Sharp +85
  • Simul +85
  • Sitzfleisch +85
  • Skittles +85
  • Slav Defense +85
  • Smith-Morra Gambit +85
  • Sofia rules +85
  • Sokolsky Opening +85
  • Sortie +85
  • Spite check +85
  • Squeeze +85
  • St. George Defense +85
  • Stafford Gambit +85
  • Staircase maneuver +85
  • Staunton +85
  • Stem game +85
  • Stonewall +85
  • Sudden death +85
  • Suffocation mate +85
  • Sveshnikov Variation +85
  • Swallow's tail mate +85
  • Swindle +85
  • Swiss system +85
  • Tabiya +85
  • Tablebase +85
  • Takeback +85
  • Tarrasch Defense +85
  • Tarrasch rule +85
  • Tension +85
  • Theory +85
  • Threat +85
  • Three-check +85
  • Tiebreak +85
  • Time pressure +85
  • Torre Attack +85
  • Transposition +85
  • Trapped piece +85
  • Trebuchet +85
  • Triangle mate +85
  • Triangulation +85
  • Tripled pawns +85
  • Troitsky line +85
  • Trompowsky Attack +85
  • Twin +85
  • Two Knights Defense +85
  • Undermining +85
  • USCF +85
  • Valve +85
  • Vienna Game +85
  • Vukovic mate +85
  • Waiting move +85
  • Ware Opening +85
  • Weak square +85
  • Winawer Variation +85
  • Windmill +85
  • Wing Gambit +85
  • Woman Candidate Master +85
  • Woman FIDE Master +85
  • Woman Grandmaster +85
  • Woman International Master +85
  • Woodpusher +85
  • Wrong bishop +85
  • Zaitsev Variation +85
  • Zeitnot +85
  • Zwischenschach +85
Rare +60 67 answers — tap to reveal
  • Algebraic notation +60
  • Armageddon +60
  • Back rank mate +60
  • Backward pawn +60
  • Bishop pair +60
  • Blockade +60
  • Bullet +60
  • Caro-Kann +60
  • Center +60
  • Classical +60
  • Clearance +60
  • Combination +60
  • Decoy +60
  • Deflection +60
  • Development +60
  • Diagonal +60
  • Discovered attack +60
  • Discovered check +60
  • Doubled pawns +60
  • Elo +60
  • English Opening +60
  • Exchange +60
  • Fianchetto +60
  • FIDE +60
  • Fifty move rule +60
  • Flag +60
  • French Defense +60
  • Fried Liver Attack +60
  • Hanging piece +60
  • Increment +60
  • Initiative +60
  • International Master +60
  • Isolated pawn +60
  • Italian Game +60
  • King's Gambit +60
  • King's Indian Defense +60
  • Kingside +60
  • London System +60
  • Material +60
  • Minority attack +60
  • Najdorf +60
  • Notation +60
  • Open file +60
  • Opposite-colored bishops +60
  • Opposition +60
  • Overloading +60
  • Passed pawn +60
  • Pawn chain +60
  • Pawn storm +60
  • Pawn structure +60
  • Perpetual check +60
  • Queenside +60
  • Rapid +60
  • Rating +60
  • Ruy Lopez +60
  • Scandinavian Defense +60
  • Smothered mate +60
  • Space +60
  • Tempo +60
  • Threefold repetition +60
  • Time control +60
  • Touch move +60
  • Trap +60
  • Underpromotion +60
  • Variation +60
  • X-ray +60
  • Zwischenzug +60
Schooler +30 32 answers — tap to reveal
  • Bishop +30
  • Blitz +30
  • Blunder +30
  • Capture +30
  • Double check +30
  • Draw +30
  • En passant +30
  • Endgame +30
  • File +30
  • Fool's mate +30
  • Fork +30
  • Gambit +30
  • Grandmaster +30
  • King +30
  • Knight +30
  • Middlegame +30
  • Opening +30
  • Pawn +30
  • Pin +30
  • Promotion +30
  • Queen +30
  • Queen's Gambit +30
  • Rank +30
  • Resign +30
  • Rook +30
  • Sacrifice +30
  • Scholar's mate +30
  • Sicilian Defense +30
  • Skewer +30
  • Strategy +30
  • Tactics +30
  • Zugzwang +30
Plankton +10 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Castling +10
  • Check +10
  • Checkmate +10
  • Stalemate +10