middlegame

middlegame

See also: middle game

English

Etymology

middle +‎ game

Noun

middlegame (plural middlegames)

1. (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.

   Hypernym: midgame

   • 2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening (page 55)

     Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.

Translations

the period in a game between the opening and endgame

Chinese: Mandarin: 中局 (zh) (zhōngjú), 中盤 (zh), 中盘 (zh) (zhōngpán) Finnish: keskipeli (fi) German: Mittelspiel (de) n Italian: mediogioco (it) m Japanese: 中盤 (ja) (ちゅうばん, chūban) Korean: 중반 (ko) (jungban) Russian: ми́ттельшпи́ль (ru) m (míttɛlʹšpílʹ) Vietnamese: trung cuộc