tabiya

English

WOTD – 10 April 2009

Alternative forms

• tabia

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic طَبِيعَة (ṭabīʕa, “normal manner”)

Noun

tabiya (plural tabiyas)

1. (chess) A position in the opening of a game that occurs after a sequence of moves that is heavily standardized, and from which the players have many possible moves again.
   • 2005, Sam Collins, An Attacking Repertoire for White, page 136:

     This position is a real tabiya. It frequently arises from the Queen's Gambit Declined rather than the Caro-Kann […]