Board and rules
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15 terms
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Position
Level: BeginnerThe game state at a particular moment, including pieces, side to move, and relevant special rights.
Move
Level: BeginnerA legal action taken by one player on their turn to change the position on the board.
Side to move
Level: BeginnerThe player, White or Black, who has the right and obligation to make the next move.
Origin square
Level: BasicThe square occupied by a piece immediately before it begins a move.
Target square
Level: BasicThe square occupied by the moving piece when a move has been made.
Legal move
Level: BeginnerA move that follows every applicable rule and does not leave the player's own king in check.
Illegal move
Level: BeginnerA move that breaks a rule, especially one that leaves or places the player's own king in check.
Illegal position
Level: IntermediateA board state that could not have been reached through any sequence of legal moves.
Pseudo-legal move
Level: AdvancedA candidate move that follows basic piece movement but may still be illegal because it leaves the moving side's king in check.
Attack
Level: BeginnerA piece attacks a square or opposing piece when it could capture there according to its movement pattern.
Attacked square
Level: BasicA square controlled by an opposing piece because that piece could capture there under its movement rules.
Capture
Level: BeginnerA move that removes an opposing piece by occupying its square, except for the special en passant capture.
Recapture
Level: BeginnerA capture answering an opponent's capture, usually by immediately taking the piece that just captured.
Reversible move
Level: AdvancedIn technical analysis, a non-pawn move to an empty square that does not reset the fifty-move count.
Irreversible move
Level: AdvancedA move that permanently changes a piece, right, or historically significant part of the position state.
