Grotesque

When commonly used, grotesque means strange, fantastic, ugly or bizarre, and thus is often used to describe shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks or gargoyles on churches. More specifically, the grotesque forms on buildings which are not used as drainspouts should not be called gargoyles, but rather referred to simply as grotesques.

In chess

Chess problems with positions which would be regarded by conventional criteria as "ugly", especially those in which a small number of white pieces fight against a much larger number of black ones, are called grotesques. See grotesque (chess) for more.

Related Topics:
Chess problem - Grotesque (chess)

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