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chess¹ Definition

chess (c̸hes)

noun

a game of skill played on a chessboard by two players, each with 16 chessmen limited in movement according to kind, the object being to checkmate the opponent's king

Etymology: ME ches, chesse < OFr esches, pl. of eschec: see check

chess² Definition

chess (c̸hes)

noun

any of several varieties of brome grass, esp. a weedy kind (Bromus secalinus) found in fields of grain

Etymology: < ?

chess Usage Examples

Preposition: as

  • sport: There are issues connected with the recognition of chess as a sport by the IOC in June 1999.

Converse of object

  • play: How to play chess: free online chess lessons for kids.
  • set: Would that glass chess set from X-Men add a touch of class to your pad?
  • promote: The whole object is to promote chess, and to this end I feel chess has been the real winner.

Adjective modifier

  • giant: Fun for all ages is to be found on the putting greens, as well as with the giant chess and drafts.
  • outdoor: Try your hand at outdoor chess, table tennis, or a host of other free games.
  • junior: He was also a Trustee of the David Wood Trust, a charity set up in 1969 to further junior chess in Essex.
  • Chinese: Some example projects include chinese chess, the Mancala game system and Othello.
  • competitive: While competitive chess is played, all games are ungraded, and non playing members are available to advise interested bystanders.

Modifies a noun

  • grandmaster: We sat down across from one another at a small table, like two chess grandmasters meeting for the first time.
  • backgammon: Few friends getting play chess backgammon for more information victims unit quot.
  • champion: The former chess champion Garry Kasparov, now active in Russian politics, wishes we wouldn't.
  • tournament: On Sunday, a number of Berkshire players took part in the Henley Youth Festival chess tournament.
  • player: More than 20,000 chess players take part in the Grand Prix.
  • congress: Almost certainly it shows thirty of the contestants and guests at the Redcar chess congress that Lewis Carroll attended on 10 August 1866.

Noun used with modifier

  • correspondence: He married and moved to Sweden in the 1970s and became one of the few correspondence chess Grand Masters.
  • glass: Would that glass chess set from X-Men add a touch of class to your pad?
  • play: Play chess, computer games or anything which involves the hands.
  • computer: All the usual features which have become part of computer chess games are included.
  • world: For decades, the USSR had dominated world chess.
chess Quotes

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

—Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov

A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

—Connally,John Bowden

Poets do not go mad; but chess players do.

—Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)

My idea of a contact sport was chess.

—Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

—Barzun,Jacques

   Life's too short for chess.

—Byron, HenryJames

Morally, spiritually, we are fettered. What have we achieved in mowing down mountain ranges, harnessing the energy of mighty rivers, or moving whole populations about like chess pieces, if we ourselves remain the same restless, miserable, frustrated creatures we were before. To call such activity progress is utter delusion.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

The Soviet game is chess†ours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.

—Shultz, George P(ratt)

It is impossibleto win gracefullyat chess.No man has yet said 'Mate!' in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

—Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)