Boards & Equipment
What is a skittles in chess?
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Skittles is a board or equipment term: a casual or "pickup" game, usually played without a chess clock. At chess tournaments, a skittles room is where one goes to play for fun while waiting for the next formal game. You use this term to describe the board accurately, which matters for notation, coordinates, and analysis.
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