Talk:Glossary of chess

Cook

I changed the definition of "Cook", since: According to the British Chess Problems Society site http://www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk/introduction.html, A cook is an unintended solution; also, it is is not a "second" solution, because certain types of problems have many times more than one intended solution.

Starting position

"Starting position" is not a chess-specific term. Every board game has one. Every manual tells what the starting position is (i.e. king on e1, queen on d1, etc.), but no manual defines the term "starting position". I don't think we should define it either. Bruce leverett (talk) 02:13, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. (No special meaning qualifying as a glossary term.) The term array is currently defined at end of gloss entry Template:Chessgloss. Perhaps the add'l phrases "initial position", "starting position", "original position" c/ be mentioned there!? --IHTS (talk) 02:54, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Actually the meaning of "starting position" is intuitively obvious since consisting of plain English words. Ditto "initial position" but a bit less obvious. Re "original position", it seems rarer but whenever/wherever used the context probably explains. --IHTS (talk) 03:01, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Schlechtester Zug

can someone add this to glossary please? pretty little used nowadays, but it has it's own notation symbol '???', and is still there in Arena Chess. It mean's Worst Move. Kempee (talk) 11:01, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

"Worst move" is just a straight translation. Is it really a technical term? MaxBrowne2 (talk) 11:46, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Can opener

Is this actually a chess term, or just a term invented by one author? Because I've never heard of it before. MaxBrowne2 (talk) 22:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Here is the edit that added it to the glossary. It predates the book by Souleidis. Sorry, that isn't very helpful for finding a proper source, but it suggests that there must be something out there. There is a famous description of prying open the h-file in the Sicilian Dragon in Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games, game 2, but it doesn't mention can openers. Bruce leverett (talk) 23:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Suggest removal of entry 'reply'

Word 'reply' probably does not qualify as chess term for the glossary since it is a commonly understood word even in the context of chess. --IHTS (talk) 18:53, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

I see that you just made an attempt to simplify this entry. But, OK with me if you remove it altogether. Not a technical term. Bruce leverett (talk) 20:19, 9 May 2025 (UTC)