Knowing a few openings and terms like "fianchetto," or "Queen's Gambit" doesn't mean a whole lot. From Wordnik.com. [Chess Masters] Reference
Birds with QB fianchetto has me thinking - I might try that, thanks. From Wordnik.com. [chess: Kerr - Colin Cloudsdale (plausible idiocy)] Reference
I usually fianchetto my dark-squared bishop and try to trade off the other one for a knight that battles for e5. From Wordnik.com. [chess: Kerr - Colin Cloudsdale (plausible idiocy)] Reference
The rest of the book is about closed systems (White plays e3) and white fianchetto setups. From Wordnik.com. [ChessVibes] Reference
Black will fianchetto the bishop, and attempt a counterattack in the center later in the game. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
For more than a century, players of all levels have been fascinated by the magic of the white king's fianchetto in the closed openings. From Wordnik.com. [ChessBase Neuheiten] Reference
Morozevich tested Radjabov's KID repertoire with a fianchetto of the king's bishop, which for today turned out to be a rare line of the Grünfeld. From Wordnik.com. [ChessVibes] Reference
All of these systems tend to center around a white fianchetto of the kingside bishop, a kingside castle, allowing black to set up in the center and attempting a counterattack. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
In hypermodern opening theory, a player will usually place a pawn on c4, and fianchetto his bishops to the side, by moving the g and b pawns one square, and moving the bishops to g2 and b2. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Ever since then, the queen fianchetto became a good weapon for Black.) 8. f4 Nc5 9. 0-0?!. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Fooling the Gullible Chess World] Reference
English-language source for the word fianchetto. From Wordnik.com. [ChessBase News] Reference
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