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C c - uncountable noun chess Chess is a game for two people, played on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces, including a king. Your aim is to move your pieces so that your opponent's king cannot escape being taken. 3
- noun chess 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 3
- noun chess a floorboard of the deck of a pontoon bridge 3
- noun chess 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 3
- noun chess any of several varieties of brome grass, esp. a weedy kind (Bromus secalinus) found in fields of grain 3
- noun Definition of chess in Technology (games) A two-player game with perfect information. See also Internet Chess Server. 1
- noun chess 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. 1
- noun plural chess any of several weedy species of bromegrass, especially Bromus secalinus . 1
- noun plural chess one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge. 1
- noun chess board game 1
- noun chess A board game of strategic skill for two players, played on a checkered board . Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces that are moved and used to capture opposing pieces according to precise rules. The object is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack from which escape is impossible ( checkmate ). 1
- noun chess 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. 0
- noun chess (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds. 0
- noun chess (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. 0