Gardez (chess)

Chess piece queen

Gardez [ ɡaʁ.de ] (French: "Protect (your lady)") in was chess of the 19th century, the warning had to pronounce a player if he enemy Dame attack, so with a figure threatened. Like the warning “ chess !” - in the event of an attack on the king - it is no longer part of the rules of chess and is still common among recreational players. In contrast to the chess law, which is noted with a "+", there is no uniform symbol for Gardez , as it is not noted in tournament practice when the game is recorded.

Gardez is now used literally in transferred situations outside of chess.

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• Angela Sendlinger: German foreign words . Compact Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8174-7728-9 , p. 268 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• gardez on duden.de