fianchettoing

Variant of fianchetto

fianchetto definition

fi·an·chetto (fē′ən ket′ō, -c̸het′ō)

transitive verb, intransitive verb fianchettoed -·toed, fianchettoing -·to·ing

Chess to move (a bishop) from its initial position diagonally into the adjacent knight's file

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