Cooked
Describing a chess composition or claimed forced win that has been shown to contain a flaw, such as an alternate solution or defense.
A "cooked" study or problem fails to hold up to rigorous analysis, often revealed decades after publication once engines or careful human analysts find the overlooked refutation.
Etymology
The figurative use of cook meaning “to manipulate, falsify, alter, doctor” — as in cooking the books — dates from the 1630s. Chess problemists took it up early: Edward Winter's standard reference states the first known occurrence of the term in a chess context was in 1851, though it is often difficult to know in exactly which sense it was employed. The OED supplies two later, unambiguous citations: “I almost imagined the author's solution a 'cook',” Westminster Papers, 1875, and “If there are two key-moves, a problem is cooked,” The Field, 14 December 1889. Two rival kitchen anecdotes survive in Winter's archive: that endgame composer Kling, who kept an eating-house, would say “Oh, I will cook your raw idea,” and Boden's explanation that a cooked problem has a second solution, just as a cookbook recipe offers “Another Way.” In chess problems, a cook is now simply “an unintended alternative solution, or a refutation.”
First documented: 1851 — Earliest known chess-context occurrence per Edward Winter's “Earliest Occurrences of Chess Terms”; the first named citations are Westminster Papers (1875) and The Field (14 December 1889)
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