the chess player dialect (iykyk)

@billy_eyelashhh said in #1:

• Words that are typically associated with formal registers/technical jargon/business language in standard English but are everyday words in Chess Player English: liquidate, superfluous, resign, penultimate, prophylaxis, inexplicable, speculative, dubious.

You left out "circumspect" (that stalwart standby of the annotator's art).

@MrPushwood said in #11:

You left out "circumspect" (that stalwart standby of the annotator's art).

thank you!

Another German term long out of use,sitzfleisch.
Quite a tactical ploy at one time.

I once made a huge blunder and got snared in a windmill. My opponent, who is a good friend, hadn't been beating me very often and discovered my mistake. I felt pretty foolish, but at the same time I was proud of him for catching me. :D

I used to play chess on a Hoyle program (which had all sorts of games). I remember one time the computer opponent responded to a fork. The character said, "Fork me? Well, fork you!" Yeah, I suppose the humor is pretty cheesy, but I enjoyed playing chess for hours. It is too bad I did not take my studies more seriously.

I noticed the "but okay" thing while listening to Fabiano's C-Squared Podcast. Not only does he say it a lot, but I also heard it from Nepo, Kramnik, Christian Chirila, and even Abhimanyu Mishra! People of all different ages and mostly different nationalities. I'm so glad someone is posting about this bc I feel a little less neurotic lol

@Passionate_Player said in #10:

I had never heard of a skewer before I knew about chess.
same here