Board and rules
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33 terms
สำรวจหัวข้อดูคำศัพท์ทั้งหมด
Game result
Level: BeginnerThe formal record of how a game ended for each player.
Win
Level: BasicA final result in which one player wins the game and the other receives a loss.
Loss
Level: BasicA final result in which one player loses the game and the opponent receives the win.
Game point
Level: BeginnerThe scoring unit awarded to a player for the result of one game.
Resignation
Level: BasicResignation is a voluntary declaration that a player will not continue, normally ending the game in an immediate loss.
Unfinished game
Level: BasicA game that started but whose final result is not yet known or available.
Unplayed game
Level: IntermediateA scheduled or recorded pairing in which the two players did not contest valid moves against each other.
Draw
Level: BasicA final result in which the game ends without either player winning.
Draw offer
Level: BasicA draw offer proposes ending the game without a winner and has that effect only if the opponent accepts.
Draw by agreement
Level: BasicThe game ends as a draw when one player offers that result and the other accepts.
Automatic draw
Level: IntermediateA draw that arises when a rules condition is met without either player having to claim it.
Claimable draw
Level: IntermediateA draw that ends the game only after a correct claim by the player having the move.
Stalemate
Level: BeginnerA drawn position where the player to move is not in check but has no legal move.
Dead position
Level: IntermediateA position in which neither player can deliver checkmate through any possible sequence of legal moves.
Insufficient material
Level: IntermediateA common term for pieces that cannot produce checkmate, judged by legal mating possibility rather than material value alone.
Mating material
Level: IntermediateThe pieces and position circumstances that allow some checkmate to be reached through legal moves.
Same position
Level: AdvancedA rules-based identity between positions with the same pieces, side to move, and possible moves.
Threefold repetition
Level: IntermediateThreefold repetition allows a draw claim when the same position appears for the third time with the same legal possibilities.
Fivefold repetition
Level: IntermediateThe game is automatically drawn when the same position appears at least five times, with no claim required.
Fifty-move rule
Level: IntermediateA player may claim a draw after 50 moves by each side without a pawn move or a capture.
Seventy-five-move rule
Level: IntermediateThe game is automatically drawn after 75 moves by each player without a pawn move or capture, unless the last move checkmates.
No-show
Level: BasicA player's absence from a round in which an opponent had been assigned, especially when the player misses the permitted arrival deadline.
Default time
Level: BasicThe maximum permitted delay after a round starts before a player normally loses for failing to appear.
Forfeit
Level: BasicA forfeit is a game loss imposed for absence, a rule violation, or failure to meet a competition condition.
Forfeit win
Level: BasicA result awarded because the opponent loses under tournament rules rather than through the normal outcome of a played game.
Forfeit loss
Level: BasicA loss imposed by a competition rule or arbiter's ruling even when the board position was not lost.
Walkover
Level: BasicA win awarded without starting the game because the assigned opponent does not appear or cannot play.
Double forfeit
Level: IntermediateAn exceptional result in which both players receive a loss because of an infringement or administrative ruling.
Claim
Level: BasicA rules-based request by which a player invokes a right that the arbiter must verify.
Draw claim
Level: IntermediateA formal request for the arbiter to declare a draw because a rule-based condition has been met.
Intended move
Level: IntermediateThe exact move formally declared before play to support certain draw claims under the rules.
Insufficient losing chances
Level: AdvancedAn optional US Chess procedure for claiming a draw in certain time scrambles with very little practical chance of losing.
Tablebase claim
Level: ExpertA specialized ICCF request to set the result of an ending exactly resolved by a database covering up to seven pieces.
