Chess Terms Beginning with 'A'

Aborter
Absolute pin
Absolute seventh
Accelerated
Accelerated Dragon
Accelerated London System
accelerated pairings
Accelerated Swiss
Accelerated_Dragon
Accelerated Dragon
Accumulation of small advantages
Accuracy
ACPL
Active piece
Adjourn
adjournment
adjudication
Adjust
Admin
Advance
Advance Caro-Kann
Advance French
Advance French Defense
Advance Variation
Advance Variation (French)
Advance Variation
Advanced chess
Advantage
AI chess
Air
Alapin
Alapin (2.c3) Sicilian
Alapin Sicilian
Alapin Sicilian Defense
Alapin Sicilian Defense Barmen Central Exchange Endgame Variation
Alapin Sicilian Defense Barmen Central Exchange Line
Alapin Sicilian Defense Barmen Defense
Alapin Sicilian Defense Barmen Milner Barry Attack
Alapin Sicilian Defense Barmen Modern Line
Alapin Sicilian Defense Heidenfeld Variation
Alapin Sicilian Defense Sherzer Variation
Alapin Sicilian Defense Stoltz Attack
Alapin Sicilian Defense Stoltz Ivanchuk Line
Alapin Variation
Alapin_Variation
Alapin-Sicilian
Alapin-Sicilian-Defense
Alapin Variation
Albin Counter-Gambit
Albin Countergambit
Alekhine
Alekhine Defence
Alekhine Defence: Krejcik Variation
Alekhine Defense
Alekhine Defense, Modern Variation
Alekhine Defense, QGD
Alekhine Defense: Balogh Variation
Alekhine Defense: Brooklyn Variation
Alekhine Defense: Exchange Variation, Voronezh Variation
Alekhine Defense: Four Pawns Attack
Alekhine Defense: Four Pawns Attack, Fianchetto Variation
Alekhine Defense: Hunt Variation, Lasker Simul Gambit
Alekhine Defense: Krejcik Variation
Alekhine Defense: Maróczy Variation
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Alekhine Variation
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Larsen-Haakert Variation
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Panov Variation
Alekhine Defense: Modern Variation, Schmid Variation
Alekhine Defense: Mokele Mbembe
Alekhine Defense: Mokele Mbembe, Vavra Defense
Alekhine Defense: Normal Variation
Alekhine Defense: Sämisch Attack
Alekhine Defense: Scandinavian Variation
Alekhine Defense: The Squirrel
Alekhine Defense: Two Pawns Attack
Alekhine Defense: Two Pawns Attack, Tate Variation
Alekhine Variation, Sicilian
Alekhine-Chatard Variation
Alekhine: 2.e5
Alekhine: 3.Bc4
Alekhine: 3.d4 d6 4.exd6
Alekhine: 4.c4 Nb6 5.Nf3
Alekhine: Chase Variation
Alekhine: Exchange, 5...cxd6
Alekhine: Exchange, 5...cxd6 6.Nc3
Alekhine: Exchange, 5...exd6 6.Nc3
Alekhine: Exchange, 5...exd6 6.Nc3 Be7
Alekhine: Four Pawns Attack, 6...c5
Alekhine: Modern, 5.Be2 e6
Alekhine: Modern, 5.Be2 e6 6.O-O
Alekhine: Modern, 5.Be2 Nc6
Alekhine: Modern, Fianchetto, 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 Bg7
Alekhine: Modern, Fianchetto, 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 Bg7 7.Ng5
Alekhine: Modern, Flohr, 6.O-O
Alekhine: Saemisch Attack, 3...Nxc3 4.dxc3
Alekhine: Scandinavian Variation
Alekhine: Scandinavian, 3.e5
Alekhine: Scandinavian, 3.e5 Ne4
Alekhine: Scandinavian, 3.e5 Nfd7
Alekhine: Scandinavian, Exchange
Alekhine: Scandinavian, Exchange, 4.Bc4
Alekhine: Scandinavian, Exchange, 4.Bc4 Nb6
Alekhine: Scandinavian, Exchange, 4.Nf3
Alekhine: Scandinavian, Exchange, 4.Nxd5
Alekhine: Two Pawns Attack, 5.Bc4
Alekhine: Two Pawns Attack, 5.Nc3
Alekhine's
Alekhine's Defence
Alekhine's Defence, Chase Variation
Alekhine's Defense
Alekhine's Defense Scandinavian Variation
Alekhine's Gun
Alekhine’s Defence
Alekhine’s Defense
Alekhine\u0027s Defense
Alekhines Defense
Alekhines Defense Balogh Variation
Alekhines Defense Brooklyn Everglades Variation
Alekhines Defense Brooklyn Variation
Alekhines Defense Buckley Attack
Alekhines Defense Buntin Gambit
Alekhines Defense Exchange Karpov Variation
Alekhines Defense Exchange Variation
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Attack
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Cambridge Gambit
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Fianchetto Variation
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Ilyin Zhenevsky Variation
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Korchnoi Variation
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Main Line
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Main Line Tartakower Variation
Alekhines Defense Four Pawns Trifunovic Variation
Alekhines Defense Hunt Variation
Alekhines Defense John Tracy Gambit
Alekhines Defense Kmoch Variation
Alekhines Defense Krejcik Variation
Alekhines Defense Krejcik Variation Krejcik Gambit
Alekhines Defense Maroczy Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Alburt Karpov Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Alburt Keres Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Alburt Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Larsen Haakert Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Larsen Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line Alekhine Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line Alekhine Variation Alekhine Gambit
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line Alekhine Variation Vitolins Attack
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line Flohr Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Main Line Panov Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Schmid Variation
Alekhines Defense Modern Variation
Alekhines Defense Mokele Mbembe Modern Line
Alekhines Defense Mokele Mbembe Variation
Alekhines Defense Mokele Mbembe Vavra Defense
Alekhines Defense Normal Variation
Alekhines Defense OSullivan Gambit
Alekhines Defense Samisch Attack
Alekhines Defense Scandinavian Geschev Gambit
Alekhines Defense Scandinavian Myers Gambit
Alekhines Defense Scandinavian Spielmann Gambit
Alekhines Defense Scandinavian Variation
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Attack
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Lasker Variation
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Lasker Variation Matsukevich Gambit
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Lasker Variation Mikenas Variation
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Lasker Variation Mikenas Variation Mikenas Gambit
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns Steiner Variation
Alekhines Defense Two Pawns The Squirrel Variation
Alekhines Defense Welling Variation
Algebraic Notation
Allgaier
Allgaier Gambit
Allumwandlung
alpha-beta
Alpha–beta
Alpha–beta pruning
AlphaZero
Amar Gambit
Amar Opening
Amar Opening Krazy Kat Variation
Amar Opening Paris Gambit
Amar Opening Paris Gent Gambit
Amar Opening, 1…d5
Amar Opening, 1...e5
Amar_Gambit
Amar_Opening
Amar-Gambit
Amazon
Amazon Attack
Amazon Attack: Siberian Attack
Amazon-Attack
Analysis
Analysis room
analysis tools
Anchor elo
Andernach
Andernach Chess
Anderssen Opening
Anderssen Opening Creepy Crawly Formation Classical Defense
Anderssen Opening Hippopotamus Attack
Anderssen Opening Polish Gambit
Anderssen Opening Shy Attack
Anderssen_Opening
Anderssen-Opening
Anderssen's Opening
Anglo-Indian Defense
Annotated game
Annotation
Annotation symbols
Anti-Andernach Chess
Anti-Circe
Anti-Dutch
Anti-Dutch systems
Anti-Marshall
Anti-Meran
Anti-Meran Gambit
Anti-Moscow
Anti-Moscow Gambit
Anti-Moscow_Gambit
Anti-pronkin
Anti-Sicilian
Antichess
Anticirce
Antoshin Variation
Antoshin-Hort Variation, Dutch
Appeal
Appeals Committee
Arabian mate
Arbiter
Archangel Defence
Archangel Defense
Arena
Arena Tournament
Aristocrat
Arkhangelsk
Armageddon
Armageddon (chess)
Armageddon game
Armenian Variation
Aron Nimzowitsch
Artificial
Artificial castling
Artificial Intelligence
aspiration window
Aspiration windows
Ataque Inglés
Atomic chess
Attack
Attacker
Attacking monster
Australian Defense
Australian_Defense
Australian-Defense
Austrian Attack
Austrian Defense
AUW
Averbakh Variation
Last updated 2026-01-16