chess
IPA: tʃˈɛs
noun
- A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
- (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
- (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
- A surname.
- A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.
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Examples of "chess" in Sentences
- The horse in Indian chess is the knight.
- Stalemate is covered in the rules of chess.
- It is the greatest game in the history of chess.
- The most famous chess playing automaton was The Turk.
- Allgaier played hidden in the chess Automaton in 1809.
- He is the chairman of the Chess Federation of Armenia.
- I suggest judicious pruning of the chess tournament and rating data.
- For a chess player, the content of the article is clearly untenable.
- The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- He was also athletic and played such games as tennis and chess with ardor.
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