Body: <p>is there any chess term to describe a position where the opponent's king is shielded from a check by only 1 piece (regardless if it's your piece, which would make it a potential discovery check, or the opponent's one, which would make that one piece absolutely pinned)?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: @user30536 I'm working on a small program and I just need to find an appropriate, preferably short, name for a thing. Currently I ended on choosing 'opponentKingSinglePieceShielded', but may be there is a shorter, more common name for such a position
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Comments.Text: What about opponentKingSingleBlocker?
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Comments.Text: @Hank'sbackrank thank you, it may indeed suffice, but I'm asking here about an 'official' term. 'No term' is also an answer, and I guess it's the one
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Comments.Text: Problem chess has the term "masked line", which is independent of the color of the masking piece...but the line points on a neighboring field, i.e. not necessarily on the king. So as a programmer I might use "MaskedCheck".
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Comments.Text: @dk Is the question you wish to ask : " Is there a chess term ( in standard chess ) for the position where a king is sheilded by a piece of either colour from a check ?'
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Comments.Text: @schweppz yes, it could be rephrased this way too " Is there a chess term ( in standard chess ) for the position where a king is shielded by a *single* piece of either colour from a check"
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Comments.Text: @dk asked the other way leads to getting bogged down in heap of other terms ( like absolute pin and discovered attack etc) which detracts from what is actually being asked .It might be redited this way then .
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Tags: <terminology><pins><discovered-check>
Title: Common term to a position of an absolute pin or a potential discovery check
ThreadText: # Common term to a position of an absolute pin or a potential discovery check
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2023-11-01)
  
  is there any chess term to describe a position where the opponent's king is shielded from a check by only 1 piece (regardless if it's your piece, which would make it a potential discovery check, or the opponent's one, which would make that one piece absolutely pinned)?
  
  **Tags:** terminology, pins, discovered-check
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: @user30536 I'm working on a small program and I just need to find an appropriate, preferably short, name for a thing. Currently I ended on choosing 'opponentKingSinglePieceShielded', but may be there is a shorter, more common name for such a position  
  > **username_1**: What about opponentKingSingleBlocker?  
  > **username_0**: @Hank'sbackrank thank you, it may indeed suffice, but I'm asking here about an 'official' term. 'No term' is also an answer, and I guess it's the one  
  > **username_2**: Problem chess has the term "masked line", which is independent of the color of the masking piece...but the line points on a neighboring field, i.e. not necessarily on the king. So as a programmer I might use "MaskedCheck".  
  > **username_3**: @dk Is the question you wish to ask : " Is there a chess term ( in standard chess ) for the position where a king is sheilded by a piece of either colour from a check ?'  
  > **username_0**: @username_3 yes, it could be rephrased this way too " Is there a chess term ( in standard chess ) for the position where a king is shielded by a *single* piece of either colour from a check"  
  > **username_3**: @dk asked the other way leads to getting bogged down in heap of other terms ( like absolute pin and discovered attack etc) which detracts from what is actually being asked .It might be redited this way then .  
  
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