QUEENSIDE

Meaning of QUEENSIDE in English

[noun] [U], [adjective] [not gradable] [specialized] - (in the game of chess) (on) the side of the board on which your queen is positioned at the start of the gameI very rarely castle on the queenside.McDonald built up a strong queenside attack/defence.

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

QUEENSIDE — noun Date: 1897 the side of a chessboard containing the file on which the queen sits at the beginning of …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
QUEENSIDE — ˈ ̷ ̷ ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : the side of the chessboard containing the file on which both queens sit at the beginning …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
QUEENSIDE — noun Date: 1897 : the side of a chessboard containing the file on which the queen sits at the beginning …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
QUEENSIDE — ■ noun Chess the half of the board on which each queen stands at the start of a game (the …
Concise Oxford English vocab
QUEENSIDE — [queen.side] n (1897): the side of a chessboard containing the file on which the queen sits at the beginning of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
QUEENSIDE — The half of the board from which the queen starts. The a, b, c and d files.
English Glossary of Chess Terms
QUEENSIDE — n. Pronunciation: - ˌ s ī d Function: noun Date: 1897 : the side of a chessboard containing the file …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
QUEEN'S ROOK — ■ noun Chess each player's rook on the queenside at the start of a game.
Concise Oxford English vocab
QUEEN'S KNIGHT — ■ noun Chess each player's knight on the queenside at the start of a game.
Concise Oxford English vocab
QUEEN'S BISHOP — ■ noun Chess each player's bishop on the queenside at the start of a game.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SECTOR — One of three areas of the board, being the queenside, the centre, and the kingside.
English Glossary of Chess Terms
MINORITY ATTACK — An attack on a pawn majority by a pawn minority. This usually occurs on the queenside. The idea is to …
English Glossary of Chess Terms
FLANK ATTACK — Attacking on either the kingside or queenside. Such attacks are much more successful when the centre is closed.
English Glossary of Chess Terms
FLANK — The files that do not belong to the centre, that is the a, b and c files on the queenside, …
English Glossary of Chess Terms
FILE — A row of eight squares from one end of the chessboard to the other. In Algebraic Notation these are labelled …
English Glossary of Chess Terms
CASTLE LONG — Queenside castling.
English Glossary of Chess Terms

Cambridge English vocab

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