Definitions for chess

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Spelling: [ches]

IPA: /tʃɛs/

Chess is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in chess (cehss).

Definitions for chess

noun

1. 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.
2. any of several weedy species of bromegrass, especially Bromus secalinus .
3. one of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.

Origin of chess

1150-1200; Middle English Old French esches, plural of eschec check¹

Examples for chess

I like to look at an affair of this sort as a chess problem, and to set myself to solve it.

We thought this season it would be more fun to just start the chess game right away.

A couple of hours afterwards I returned to the cottage for chess as usual.

It was like having a chess match against your grandfather, while everyone else played Call of Duty for money.

One of his most entertaining books is about chess Records, the legendary Blues record label.

Russian chess players use an expression known as mnogohodovka, which describes a problem requiring several moves to resolve.

With Suzanne, Vee saw someone who could be a pawn in her chess game.

"She probably has a chess board always at her elbow," Sally suggested.

Come, come in, well take a Game at chess before Dinner, if we can.

I'd like you to give me a game at chess to-night, if you're not otherwise engaged.