Forced means the 2nd best move is clearly inferior.
Sometimes the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and even more best moves are roughly equal... so it's actually worth noting when there is a big difference between the 1st and 2nd best move... these situations are called "forcing" moves.
Flagging is when you play quickly in order to win on time.
And there are the times when one’s enthusiasm is flagging.
Bruce Pandolfini has a book called Chess Thinking that is pretty much a chess dictionary.
It predates texting and social media, but otherwise is pretty much the definitive book on chess terms and slang.
Haven't looked into this topic for a while but thanks for all the info people. I'll check out the Bruce Pandolfini book. Still think chess.com should have a smallish glossary. Why not? They seem to have every other darn thing. Betcha a lot of players would use it especially new ones. (by the way what's a "wall chart"?)
I'd like to see chess.com have a glossary of chess terms both legit and slang. Took me a while to figure out what 'gg' means for instance. Still don't know what a 'forced' move is for instance and whether if you are demarked with a 'forced' move whether I did the forcing or I got forced. Another term I've seen lately is 'flagging' . Don't know what that is. Anyway it would be especially good for newbies.
I think V1 had a feature like this.
Loooooong gone.
I'd like to see chess.com have a glossary of chess terms both legit and slang. Took me a while to figure out what 'gg' means for instance. Still don't know what a 'forced' move is for instance and whether if you are demarked with a 'forced' move whether I did the forcing or I got forced. Another term I've seen lately is 'flagging' . Don't know what that is. Anyway it would be especially good for newbies.