Did you know that chess communities coin their own slang terms? With the rise of online chess and internet streamers, new chess slang is being created faster than ever before! Skittles Skittles are casual, unofficial chess games frequently played in between rounds of official tournament games. These games are often played in what’s called a skittles room , or a room reserved especially for players to socialize, play, and unwind in after tournament games. The term may have originated from an old European pub or lawn game similar to bowling, where the targets are called skittles. Like in an offhand game of bowling, pieces may fly in these informal chess games that are often played even sitting on the floor! Example sentence: Let’s go play some skittles after the next round! Flag No, this doesn’t have anything to do with flagging your opponent down like a taxi. Instead, to flag means to lose a timed chess game because you’ve run out of time on your clock, whether online or in real life.…