Post-Mortem
A casual term for the analysis of a game conducted immediately after it has finished, usually with the opponent, to review key moments and mistakes.
A post-mortem often takes place informally at the board or in a skittles area, and it is a traditional and valued part of over-the-board chess culture.
Etymology
Post-mortem is Latin, post meaning after and mortem the accusative of mors meaning death. English used it first as an adverb, recorded in 1734, then as an adjective from 1835 and as a noun meaning an autopsy from 1850. Chess borrowed the medical metaphor for the joint analysis two players conduct immediately after a game has finished, dissecting what went wrong, and Wikipedia's Glossary of chess carries post mortem as a headword in exactly this sense. Wiktionary records the noun with an 1880 citation but gives no etymology beyond the Latin. No dated first use of the chess sense was found: Edward Winter's Earliest Occurrences of Chess Terms has no entry for it.
First documented: n.a. for the chess sense (English noun sense: 1850) — n.a. - no entry in Winter's Earliest Occurrences of Chess Terms
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