Boards & Equipment

What is a weakness in chess?

  • Board
  • Pieces
  • Coordinates

Weakness is a board or equipment term: a pawn or square that can be attacked and is hard to defend. You use this term to describe the board accurately, which matters for notation, coordinates, and analysis.

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