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
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: a weedy annual European bromegrass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in North America as a weed especially in grain
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: any of several weedy bromegrasses related to chess
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Chris Lau, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Lee first presented Xi with a wooden board for the chess game Go.
—Chris Lau, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
Reminiscent of other Depression-era pies like buttermilk, chess, or egg pie, Transparent Pie hails from the Bluegrass State.
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
Everyone knows how to play chess and putting that in her emotional storyline was really cool and powerful.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
From there, in the parlor, rounds of chess, billiards, and one last fruitless attempt at backgammon.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chess
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“Chess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chess. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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