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[ches] 
–noun
| a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard. |
chess
2 [ches] –noun, plural chess, chess⋅es.
| one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge. |
Origin:
1425–75; late ME ches tier, layer < ?
1425–75; late ME ches tier, layer < ?
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| chess 1 (chěs) 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.] |
| chess 2 (chěs) n. Any of several species of brome grass, especially the cheat. [Origin unknown.] |
| chess 3 (chěs) 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
Chess\, n. [OE. ches, F. ['e]checs, prop. pl. of ['e]chec check. See 1st Check.] A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.Chess
Chess\, n. (Bot.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus. [U. S.] Note: Other species of brome grass are called upright chess, soft chess, etc.
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Language Translation for : chess
Italian:
(gioco degli) scacchi,
German:
das Schachspiel,
Japanese:
チェス
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]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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