Chess Glossary : Section L

Lego Chess
Lego, THE brand that all parents love for their kids … safe (well, as safe as anything can be around a child in cunning-mode), fun, bright colors. The Chess Glossary Team raised the point that it’s more often the parents who love to play with the Lego, while the child will happily make do with the box.

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Lightning Chess
A type of Chess game played at an extremely fast pace, typically lasting a maximum of 4 minutes, with 1 or 2 minutes given to each player, to make all their moves.

Light-Square Bishop
Refers to the Bishops that start each game on the light-colored squares. Both sides have a Light-Square Bishop and, like the dark-square Bishops, they will remain on their starting color, until either the end of the game, or until they are captured (whichever is the sooner).

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Liquidation
Also known as “Simplification“, it involves exchanging Pieces of equal value, often as a defensive strategy to reduce the size of your opponent’s army. Their Pieces are Liquidated and, with less of them on the board, the position is Simplified.

Linares
An invitation-only Chess Tournament, in Linares (Spain).

Line
1. Refers to a specific sequence of moves, typically associated with Chess Openings, or in the analysis of a certain position.
2. Can also refer to a clear path allowing access for a Bishop, Rook, or Queen to move, or target a specific square.

Little Chess
A simple, free, downloadable chess program that’s not worth bothering to download.

Long Diagonal
Refers to one of the two diagonal lines of squares that run from corner to corner, of the chessboard. The Long-Diagonals are a1-h8 and a8-h1, respectively.

Loss
Er, the opposite of a Win … Refers to the outcome of a game of Chess. A player can lose if 1) their King is “Checkmated”; 2) they’re in a hopeless position, so choose to “Resign”; 3) in tournament conditions they “run out of time”; 4) they’re caught cheating and the tournament director finds out (expect lots of tutting; hard-stares; and a Loss of the game).

Lucena Position
The Chess Glossary Team thought they’d find this in the Kama Sutra. Management knew they were wrong, but had a look anyway, before, um, sometime later, pointing to what Wikipedia had known all along, which is that the real Lucena Position is an Endgame position that involves a Rook and Pawn versus a lone Rook.

Luft
1. A German word meaning “Air” and applied to Chess when describing a Pawn move that makes space – or Air – for the King to roam, or escape an attack.
2. A newly-butchered Chess Glossary Team verb, following release of a cheeky air biscuit.