Chess A-Z

Try to guess these answers pertaining to chess starting with each letter of the alphabet.

Where answers are personal names, the corresponding letter is the first letter in the last name

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	Hint	Answer
A	Notation system using letter-number pairs to identify squares on the board	Algebraic notation
B	A very bad move	Blunder
C	Player with the highest FIDE rating as of April 2022	Magnus Carlsen
D	A possible outcome of a game of chess in which neither side wins or loses	Draw
E	The only capturing move in chess that does not land on the captured piece	En passant
F	Checkmate in two moves	Fool's mate
G	The highest title that a player can achieve, awarded by FIDE and valid for life	Grandmaster
H	Two pawns of the same color on adjacent files, with no pawns of the same color on the files either side of them	Hanging pawns
I	The amount of time added to each player's clock before each move	Increment
J	Expression used when adjusting pieces	J'adoube
K	The most important piece in chess	King
L	One of the two diagonals with eight squares (a1–h8 or h1–a8)	Long diagonal
M	The part of a chess game that follows the opening and comes before the endgame	Middlegame

	Hint	Answer
N	Opponent of C in the 2021 World Chess Championship	Ian Nepomniachtchi
O	Opening with the moves 1. e4 e5	Open Game
P	Term for a pawn that is able to advance through the board and promote without getting under attack	Passed pawn
Q	White's left side and Black's right side	Queenside
R	Term for a horizontal row on the chessboard	Rank
S	Position in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal move	Stalemate
T	The allowed time to play a game, usually measured by a chess clock	Time control
U	Promoting a pawn to a rook, bishop, or knight instead of a queen	Underpromotion
V	A chess-like game that is not chess itself	Chess variant
W	Slang for pieces	Wood
X	When the power of a piece, either to attack or to defend, seems to pass through an intervening enemy piece	X-ray
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Z	Situation in which any legal move would get the player into disadvantage	Zugzwang

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