tabiya

noun /təˈbiːə/

1. 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 […]

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tabiya (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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