Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Strategic Moves and Chess Tactics is a medium crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Strategic Moves and Chess Tactics
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
- 2. Final stage of the game with few pieces left
- 3. A very bad move that loses material or position
- 5. A special pawn capture made immediately after an opponent moves two squares
- 6. Most powerful piece with combined rook and bishop moves
- 10. A position where the king is under threat and cannot escape
- 12. Initial moves of a chess game
- 13. The total value of pieces a player has on the board
- 16. Piece that moves diagonally across the board
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- 1. Special move involving the king and rook
- 4. The 8x8 grid on which chess is played
- 7. Piece that moves in straight lines across ranks and files
- 8. A situation forcing a player to move to their disadvantage
- 9. Most numerous and weakest chess piece
- 11. A tactic attacking two or more pieces simultaneously
- 14. A drawn position where a player has no legal move but is not in check
- 15. A threat to the opponent's king
- 17. A strategy where a player sacrifices material for advantage
- 18. Piece that moves in an L-shape
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