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 term chess has come to represent political, economic, or military maneuvers.
- In their houses, they play much at that most ingenious game which we call chess, or else at draughts.
- One of the plus points of chess is that you can sit down and play anyone and you are on equal footing.
- The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means “the king is dead.”
- Undoubtedly it is far more useful for success in chess to have a motivated teacher at an early age rather than some fraction more intelligence.
- That is, where there is a critical mass of 50% girls 'participation in chess in a community, significant differences in ability compared to boys disappear.
- Um … The king in chess is supposed to have 8 short spines on top with a single object in the middle to signify that it moves one space in any direction (except when castling).
- To maximize your reach to chess enthusiasts on Twitter you should include the #chess hashtag to your updates. alter-me, 13 March 2009, 16.22: Can we please have a discussion here about broadcasts, copyrights and PR, please?
- So far, I am confident I have not been in their way, but quite the reverse; the chess is a great resource for Mr. Buller in the first loneliness occasioned by the loss of little Theresa; and Mrs. Buller seems to get some good of talking with me: as for Reginald, now that he has conquered, or rather that I have conquered, his first terror, he does not seem to have anything to object to me very particularly.
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