Chess Terms Beginning with 'M'

MacCutcheon Variation
Madladn G Sling
Madrasi
Magic
Magic bitboards
Magnus effect
Magnus Sicilian
Mailbox
mailbox representation
Main
Main line
Major piece
Majority
Makagonov
Makogonov System
Makogonov Variation
Maneuver
maneuvering phase
Mar
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata Variation
Marienbad System
Maroczy
Maroczy Bind
Maróczy Bind
Maroczy_Bind
Maróczy_Bind
Maroczy Bind
Marshall
Marshall Attack
Marshall Defence
Marshall Defense
Marshall Gambit
Marshall Gambit
Master
match
match points
mate
mate in n
mate in one
mate in two
mate-in-one
material
Material imbalance
Materialist
Mating net
Max
Max Euwe
Max Lange Attack
Max Lange Defense
Maximummer
McCutcheon
McCutcheon Variation
McDavid Split
McMahon System
MCTS
Median Buchholz
Median-Buchholz
memory palace
Meran
Meran Variation
Meredith
Mexican Defense
Michael Basman openings
middle-game planning
Middlegame
middlegame plans
middlegame strategies
middlegame strategy
Mieses Opening
Mieses Opening Reversed Rat Variation
Mieses Opening: Reversed Rat
Mieses: 1...d5
Mikenas Attack
Mikenas Defense
Mikenas Defense: Cannstatter Variation
Mikenas Defense: Lithuanian Variation
Mikenas–Carls Variation
Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Botvinnik
Milner-Barry Gambit
Mindeno Variation
Miniature
minimax
Minor
Minor exchange
Minor piece
Minor piece outpost
Minor-piece endgame
Minor-piece ending
minor-piece imbalance
Minor-piece outpost
minor-piece-activity
minor-piece-endgame
minor-piece-imbalance
minor-piece endgame
Minority
minority attack
minority_attack
minority-attack
Minority Attack
MinorityAttack
MinorPieceEndgame
MinorPieceExchange
Mirror
Mistake
mobility
Model
model game
Model games
model mate
Moderator
Modern
Modern Archangel
Modern Benoni
Modern chess
Modern Defence
Modern Defense
Modern Defense (Geller System)
Modern Defense Averbakh Kotov Variation
Modern Defense Averbakh Variation
Modern Defense Bishop Attack
Modern Defense Bishop Attack Monkeys Bum Variation
Modern Defense Fianchetto Gambit
Modern Defense Geller System
Modern Defense Gurgenidze Variation
Modern Defense Mongredien Defense
Modern Defense Norwegian Defense
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Beefeater Variation
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Benoni Gambit Accepted Beefeater Variation
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Central Benoni Variation
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Defense
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Defense with
Modern Defense Pterodactyl Semi Averbakh Variation
Modern Defense Rat Defense Accelerated Gurgenidze Variation
Modern Defense Standard Line
Modern Defense Standard Lizard Defense Mittenberger Gambit
Modern Defense Standard Pseudo Austrian Attack
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Anhanguera Variation
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Defense
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Eastern Rhamphorhynchus Pteranodon Variation
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Eastern Variation Benoni Variation
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Eastern Variation Rhamphorhynchus Variation
Modern Defense Standard Pterodactyl Sicilian Variation Anhanguera Variation
Modern Defense Standard Two Knights Small Center Variation
Modern Defense Standard Two Knights Suttles Variation
Modern Defense Standard Two Knights Variation
Modern Defense Three Pawns Attack
Modern Defense Three Pawns Attack with
Modern Defense Three Pawns Pterodactyl Defense
Modern Defense Westermann Gambit
Modern Defense with
Modern Defense with 1 d4
Modern Defense with d4
Modern Defense with d4 and Nc3
Modern Defense: Averbakh System
Modern Defense: Beefeater Variation
Modern Defense: Bishop Attack
Modern Defense: Geller's System
Modern Defense: Kotov Variation
Modern Defense: Lizard Defense, Mittenberger Gambit
Modern Defense: Modern Pterodactyl
Modern Defense: Mongredien Defense, with Nc3
Modern Defense: Norwegian Defense
Modern Defense: Pseudo-Austrian Attack
Modern Defense: Pterodactyl Variation
Modern Defense: Standard Defense
Modern Defense: Standard Line
Modern Defense: Three Pawns Attack
Modern Defense: Two Knights Variation
Modern Knight Defense in the Queen's Gambit Declined
Modern Opening
Modern Steinitz Defense
Modern_Benoni
Modern-Defense
Modern-Defense-Standard-Line
Modern-Defense-with-1-e4-2.Nc3-Bg7
Modern: 3.c3
Modern: 3.Nc3 d6 4.Bc4
Modern: 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3
Modern: 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 a6
Modern: 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 c6
Modern: 3.Nf3
Modern: 3.Nf3 d6
Modern: 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4
Modern: Geller System
Modified Median
Mokele Mbembe (English Opening)
Møller Attack
Møller Defence
Møller Defense
Monkey
Monte
Monte Carlo Tree Search
Montevideo Defense
Moremover
Moron move
Morphy Defence
Morphy Defense
Morra Gambit
Moscow
Moscow Variation
Moscow_Variation
Mouse clicker
Mouse lift
Mouse Slip
Mouse slipper
move
Move drip
Move generation
Move generator
Move order
Move ordering
Move smurfing
Move spam
Move Two
move-order
Multi-clubbing
Mute
Mutual
Mutual zugzwang
Muzio
Muzio Gambit
MVV-LVA
MVV–LVA
My system
Last updated 2026-02-02