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chess
1[ ches ]
noun
- a game played on a chessboard by two people who maneuver sixteen pieces each according to rules governing movement of the six kinds of pieces (pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king), the object being to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.
chess
2[ ches ]
noun
- any of several weedy species of bromegrass, especially Bromus secalinus.
chess
3[ ches ]
noun
- one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.
chess
1/ tʃɛs /
noun
- a floorboard of the deck of a pontoon bridge
chess
2/ tʃɛs /
noun
- 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
chess
3/ tʃɛs /
noun
- a less common name for rye-brome
Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chess1
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Example Sentences
Democrats may have poor communication skills, but they’re even worse at playing political chess.
Fans have bought tracksuits to dress as “Squid Game” characters for Halloween or chess sets due to the fandom around “The Queen’s Gambit.”
“I kind of look at it as chess. In chess, you set things up.”
Stewart concluded, “Republicans exploit the loopholes. Democrats complain about the norms over and over and over . . . I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Republicans are playing chess, and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs.”
But with all the input from different places and the different plot threads involving Riley’s struggles to fit in at hockey camp, Anxiety’s misguided attempts to help, exiled Joy’s quest to return and restore balance and all the “balls in the air” and “three-dimensional chess,” as LeFauve puts it, Mann would keep coming back to the central idea: “ ‘What’s the story?
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