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| a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard. |
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Audio Help [ches] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural chess, chess·es.
| one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge. |
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME ches tier, layer < ?]
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| chess 1
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n. A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king. [Middle English ches, short for Old French esches, pl. of eschec, check in chess; see check.] |
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| chess 2
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n. Any of several species of brome grass, especially the cheat. [Origin unknown.] |
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| chess 3
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n. pl. chess or chess·es One of the floorboards of a pontoon bridge. [Middle English ches, tier, perhaps from Old French chasse, frame, from Latin capsa, box.] |
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chess
13c., from O.Fr. esches pl. of eschec (see check), from the key move of the game. The original word for "chess" is Skt. chaturanga "four members of an army" -- elephants, horses, chariots, foot soldiers. This is preserved in Sp. ajedrez, from Arabic (al) shat-ranj, from Pers. chatrang, from the Skt. word.
"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem." [Marcel Duchamp]
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| chess | |
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| 1. | weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat |
| 2. | a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
chess [tʃes] noun
a game for two played with thirty-two (usually black and white) pieces (ˈchessmen) on a board (ˈchessboard) with sixty-four (usually black and white) squares
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chess games
A two-player game with perfect information.
Usenet newsgroup: rec.games.chess.
See also Internet Chess Server.
(1995-03-25)
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Cheat\, n. [rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat.]1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. --Dryden. 2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. --Johnson 3. (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. 4. (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. --Wharton. Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Chess
Cheat\, n. [rob. an abbrevation of escheat, lands or tenements that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real or supposed, that were resorted to in procuring escheats. See Escheat.]1. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture. When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. --Dryden. 2. One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. --Johnson 3. (Bot.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. 4. (Law) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth. Note: When cheats are effected by deceitful or illegal symbols or tokens which may affect the public at large and against which common prudence could not have guarded, they are indictable at common law. --Wharton. Syn: Deception; imposture; fraud; delusion; artifice; trick; swindle; deceit; guile; finesse; stratagem.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
| CHESS Community Health and Environmental Surveillance System |
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