Counterplay

Quick meaning: Counterplay is a noun meaning A game move made as a response.

Meaning

A game move made as a response.

More Meanings

1. (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
2. (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
3. To make a counterplay; to play in response.
4. To counter; to contrast or contradict.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: playing off meta — colloquial

Milov might have tried 15 ... b4 to give himself some counterplay on the queenside.

I knew that, with this arrangement, unless I should counterplay, they would soon fleece me.

Self-reflections on hope are counterplayed by the grim reality in the camp, reminiscent of a lost home, and the agony for the future.

Word Forms

• counterplays
• counterplaying
• counterplayed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include countermove, counterbluff, counter-attack, counterwager, counterpush, counterparry.

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