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tabiya

/təˈbiːə/

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From Arabic تَعْبِئَة (taʕbiʔa) or تَعْبِيَة (taʕbiya, “mobilization, arrangement”).

noun tabiyas · tabia

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

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@misc{tabiya_2026,
  title = {tabiya},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tabiya},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}