middlegame

See also: middle game

English

Etymology

From middle +‎ game.

Noun

middlegame (plural middlegames)

1. (board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame.

   Hypernym: midgame

   • 2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55:

     Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.

Translations

the period in a game between the opening and endgame

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中局 (zh) (zhōngjú), 中盤 / 中盘 (zh) (zhōngpán)

• Finnish: keskipeli (fi)
• German: Mittelspiel (de) n
• Italian: mediogioco (it) m
• Japanese: 中盤 (ja) (ちゅうばん, chūban)
• Korean: 중반 (ko) (jungban)
• Russian: ми́ттельшпи́ль (ru) m (míttɛlʹšpílʹ)
• Vietnamese: trung cuộc