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44 which can be called actual or close frontal opposition; or this form:

which can be called actual or close diagonal opposition, or, again, this form:

which can be called actual or close lateral opposition.

In practice they are all one and the same. The Kings are always on squares of the same colour, there is only one intervening square between the Kings, and the player who has moved last "has the opposition."