fianchetto (redirected from fianchetti)

fi·an·chet·to  (fn-kt, -cht)

n. pl. fi·an·chet·ti (-kt, -cht)

The development in chess of a bishop from its original position to the second square of the adjacent knight's file.

tr. & intr.v. fi·an·chet·toed, fi·an·chet·to·ing, fi·an·chet·tos

To develop as or set up a fianchetto.

---

[Italian, diminutive of fianco, flank, from Old Italian, from Old French flanc; see flank.]