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middle game

middle game is the alternative form of middlegame.

Meaning of middlegame

Noun

middlegame (plural middlegames)

  1. (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.
    • Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55

Forms of middle game

pluralmiddle games

Questions about middle game

What is middle game the alternative form of?
Middle game is the alternative form of middlegame.

Words near middle game in the dictionary

  1. middle for diddle
  2. Middle Francia
  3. Middle Franconia
  4. Middle French
  5. Middle Frisian
  6. middle game
  7. middle games
  8. Middle Gap
  9. Middle Greek
  10. middle ground
  11. middle grounds

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