Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The development in chess of a bishop from its original position to the second square of the adjacent knight's file.
- transitive & intransitive verb To develop as or set up a fianchetto.
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- noun chess the development of a
bishop by moving it one square to a long diagonal; specifically, a set of opening moves where abishop isdeveloped to the secondrank of theadjacent knight file - verb chess to develop a
bishop by moving it one square to a long diagonal; specifically, a set of opening moves where abishop isdeveloped to the secondrank of theadjacent knight file
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Knowing a few openings and terms like "fianchetto," or "Queen's Gambit" doesn't mean a whole lot.
Chess Masters Steve Perry 2010
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Birds with QB fianchetto has me thinking - I might try that, thanks
chess: Kerr - Colin Cloudsdale (plausible idiocy) Bill Kerr 2008
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I usually fianchetto my dark-squared bishop and try to trade off the other one for a knight that battles for e5.
chess: Kerr - Colin Cloudsdale (plausible idiocy) Bill Kerr 2008
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The rest of the book is about closed systems (White plays e3) and white fianchetto setups.
ChessVibes Arne Moll 2009
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Morozevich tested Radjabov's KID repertoire with a fianchetto of the king's bishop, which for today turned out to be a rare line of the Grünfeld.
ChessVibes 2009
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Black will fianchetto the bishop, and attempt a counterattack in the center later in the game.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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For more than a century, players of all levels have been fascinated by the magic of the white king's fianchetto in the closed openings.
ChessBase Neuheiten 2009
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In hypermodern opening theory, a player will usually place a pawn on c4, and fianchetto his bishops to the side, by moving the g and b pawns one square, and moving the bishops to g2 and b2.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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All of these systems tend to center around a white fianchetto of the kingside bishop, a kingside castle, allowing black to set up in the center and attempting a counterattack.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Ever since then, the queen fianchetto became a good weapon for Black.) 8. f4 Nc5 9. 0-0?!
seanahan commented on the word fianchetto
The chess position where you move your pawn in front of you knight forward one square, and move you bishop behind it. From Italian for "little flanking".
February 21, 2007