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required to move it can announce the French j'adoube ("I adjust") before touching the piece. While j'adoube is internationally understood, a local language...

Interzonal in 1967. He played a losing move but then took it back after saying "j'adoube" ("I adjust" – spoken before adjusting pieces on their square, see touch-move...

physical position within a square must first alert the opponent by saying J'adoube or "I adjust". Once the game has started, only the player with the move...

Interzonal in which, after a little cheating (see j'adoube), he came ninth." p. 185 (the "j'adoube" entry) says: "...withdrew a losing move saying "Ich...

on their turn, and must first say "I adjust", or the French equivalent "J'adoube". advanced pawn A pawn that is on the opponent's half of the board (the...

Alfred Dreyfus, a young French artillery officer of Jewish background). j'adoube In chess, an expression, said discreetly, that signals the intention to...

diagram). The incident was controversial as Nakamura initially tried to claim j'adoube, the international term to convey that one intends to adjust the piece...

garment (see jacket) jacket, Old Fr. jaquette, diminutive form of jaque jade j'adoube jail jalousie jamb jambalaya James, Old Fr. James Jane, Old Fr. Jehane...

moved" is mandatory unless the player has announced beforehand: "I dub" (j'adoube). Dubbing is used in trictrac to arrange men and can only be used to correct...