key move
Turning point maneuver
A key move is the crucial action that determines success or shifts a situation decisively.
In chess, it's the move that initiates a winning combination or solves a puzzle: The key move is bishop to e6.
More broadly, it's any strategic decision that proves essential: Hiring her was the key move that turned the company around.
- crucialOf supreme importance
- decisiveQuick to conclude
- pivotalVitally important, deciding
- make or breakDecisive for outcome
- gambitRisky opening for advantage
game plan · checkmate · breakthrough · stroke · masterstroke · tactic · maneuver · chess · opening gambit · strategy · turning point · clincher · coup · power play · killer instinct · opening · endgame · final blow
- chess problemscheckmate, mate in two, helpmate, study, solution
- chess endgamesking and queen, zugzwang, opposition, triangulation, fortress
effectiveness
key movefatal error
Unrecoverable computing malfunction
blunder · misstep · costly mistake · own goal · unforced error
key, move, keys, keyed, keying, keyless, moved, moves, moving