chess
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noun
a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard.
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chess1 (tʃɛs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a game of skill for two players using a chessboard on which chessmen are moved. Initially each player has one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, which have different types of moves according to kind. The object is to checkmate the opponent's king | |
| [C13: from Old French esches, plural of eschec check (at chess); see | |
| chess2 (tʃɛs) | |
| —n | |
| (US) a less common name for rye-brome | |
| [C18: of unknown origin] | |
| chess3 (tʃɛs) | |
| —n , pl chess, chesses | |
| a floorboard of the deck of a pontoon bridge | |
| [C15 (in the sense: layer, tier): from Old French chasse frame, from Latin capsa box] | |
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Word Origin & History
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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FOLDOC
Computing Dictionary
chess definition
gamesA two-player game with perfect information.
Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.chess.
See also Internet Chess Server.
(1995-03-25)
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| CHESS Community Health and Environmental Surveillance System |
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Example sentences
Learn a new mental skill, such as chess or counting cards for blackjack.
The actual magic lantern went for five hundred thousand crowns, and the chess set for a million.
She has a doctorate in physics and is a grandmaster of political chess, always many moves ahead of her rivals.
People started to take paintings and photographs out of the closets and to dig up chess sets from their backyards.
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