middlegame

See also: middle game

English

Etymology

middle +‎ game

Noun

middlegame (plural middlegames)

(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／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

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