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.

Inconsistency
The entry for "Norm" says that you have to get three norms to be a grandmaster -- however, the linked "norm" page says that you only need two norms. Which is correct? 50.236.201.50 (talk) 13:43, 23 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Looked at a variety of sources, all of them say it's three. Will edit accordingly. ISaveNewspapers (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The relevant primary source is the FIDE Title Regulations effective 1 January 2023. They do not specify a number of norms, but specify (section 1.5.1) that there must be at least 27 games. Earlier versions of the regs may have specified a number of norms, I don’t remember. Bruce leverett (talk) 12:15, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Ron Henley got the GM title from a single monster 26 player round robin, I don't think that would be legal anymore. The point is that the GM title is not defined in terms of a set number of norms, although in practice it usually means three. Also some events such as the Olympiad are counted as "double norms". MaxBrowne2 (talk) 22:51, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Piece definition absence
Why include entries for the pieces but not give them legitimate definitions? ISaveNewspapers (talk) 03:45, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

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 . 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)