CHESS

Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

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chess

Noun

  1. A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A type of grass, generally considered a weed.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.


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