Chess Game Terms

Video Transcript

"Now I'd like to go into a few chess terms that you may hear from time to time. You will hear people talking about a Fianchetto, or Fianchetto. It is simply means a Bishop which is on that Knight's two square. That is a Fianchetto Bishop. If you remember, it controls a long diagonal which is very powerful. You will also hear about discovered check. Discovered check, in essence, is something like this. You would have this situation and the King is not, the white King is not currently in check, but now the Knight moves and low and behold, the King is now in check. That's discovered check. There is also something called double check. And double check would essentially work like this. Where you would be simultaneously attacked by two different pieces, in essence, your King. So a double check could be something like this. At the moment, white is not in check. Black to move. Black moves to here. Now the white King is in double check. It's checked both by the Bishop here and by the Rook here. That is double check. Another thing that I wanted to talk about is the term called En Prise, another term you'll hear used from time to time, which is simply a piece which is being attacked, which for whatever reason is not moved. Now the black Rook there is being attacked by the white Bishop. The black Rook is En Prise, the French phrase again meaning, being basically, being under danger. And unless it's moved, of course, it could be lost. But that is an En Prise, the Rook is En Prise there. Now I'd like to tell you a little bit about blindfold chess. Blindfold chess is exactly what it says, it is chess played without actually seeing the board. And Master Chess Players are very, very good at this. They can actually play several games at the same time blindfold, without ever seeing the board and most likely they'll win. And final thing is a Master is somebody, a Chess Master, who has a very high chess rating. There is a rating system. Usually a Master would be twenty four hundred and above."