Illustration of chess
- chessboard with chess pieces arranged as at the beginning of a game
: a game for 2 players each of whom moves 16 pieces according to fixed rules across a checkerboard and tries to checkmate the opponent's king
1
: a weedy annual European bromegrass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in North America as a weed especially in grain
2
: any of several weedy bromegrasses related to chess
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Cam Inman, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Football, to steal a cliché, is like Kuhr's chess board.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
In a promotional video, the founder showed off an office chess set, beers brewed from lurid blue Yunnan mushrooms and a small library stocked with quantum mechanics textbooks.
—Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Like, [football] is violent chess.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2025
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Mayfield admired the chess match Warner played last game with Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, whose visual cues tried to throw off Warner’s tracking sense.
—Cam Inman, Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2025
Football, to steal a cliché, is like Kuhr's chess board.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
In a promotional video, the founder showed off an office chess set, beers brewed from lurid blue Yunnan mushrooms and a small library stocked with quantum mechanics textbooks.
—Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
Like, [football] is violent chess.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Chess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chess. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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