General Terms

What is a kibitz in chess?

  • Concept
  • Vocabulary
  • Chess

Kibitz is a chess vocabulary term: as a spectator, making comments on a chess game that can be heard by the players. Kibitzing on a serious game while it is in progress (rather than during a post-mortem) is a serious breach of chess etiquette. Use it as vocabulary, but always ask what it changes about the position or the game situation.

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