chess opening

1. 1.

   a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

   “he memorized all the important chess openings”

   Synonymsopening

   Broadersuccession

   chess

Questions about chess opening

What does chess opening mean?

chess opening means "a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess".

What is another word for chess opening?

Close synonyms include opening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chess opening a common word?

chess opening is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.