"middlegame" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "middle + game",
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      "form": "middlegames",
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          "ref": "2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55",
          "text": "Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.",
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        "The period in a game between the opening and endgame."
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          "endgame"
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        "(board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame."
      ],
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        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhōngjú",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "中局"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "中盤"
        },
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "zhōngpán",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "中盘"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "keskipeli"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "Mittelspiel"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "mediogioco"
        },
        {
          "alt": "ちゅうばん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "chūban",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "中盤"
        },
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "jungban",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "중반"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "míttɛlʹšpílʹ",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ми́ттельшпи́ль"
        },
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
          "word": "trung cuộc"
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  "word": "middlegame"
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  "etymology_text": "middle + game",
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      "form": "middlegames",
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      ],
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        "(board games) The period in a game between the opening and endgame."
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhōngjú",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "中局"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "中盤"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhōngpán",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "中盘"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "keskipeli"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Mittelspiel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mediogioco"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ちゅうばん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chūban",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "中盤"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jungban",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "중반"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "míttɛlʹšpílʹ",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ми́ттельшпи́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the period in a game between the opening and endgame",
      "word": "trung cuộc"
    }
  ],
  "word": "middlegame"
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