Middlegame

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The period in a game between the opening and endgame.

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

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

Etymology

From middle + game.

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