Chess
[tʃes] or [tʃɛs]
Definition
(noun.) a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king.
(noun.) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat.
Typist: Owen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
Editor: Ned
Definition
n. a game of skill for two persons or parties played with figures or 'pieces ' which are moved on a chequered board.—n. Chess′-board the board on which chess is played.—n.pl. Chess′-men pieces used in chess.
n. one of the parallel planks of a pontoon-bridge—generally in pl.
Checker: Ronnie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of playing chess, denotes stagnation of business, dull companions, and poor health. To dream that you lose at chess, worries from mean sources will ensue; but if you win, disagreeable influences may be surmounted.
Edited by Josie
Examples
- I got out the chess-board and arranged the pieces. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was all as simple and easy to learn and understand to Dur醤 as chess to a child chess prodigy. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They played with the past, and with the great figures of the past, a sort of little game of chess, or marionettes, all to please themselves. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These chess-men were the delight of Georgy's life, who printed his first letter in acknowledgement of this gift of his godpapa. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We may place our men, then, I think,' observed the officer, with as much indifference as if the principals were chess-men, and the seconds players. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not play at chess? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He ordered and sent a box of scarfs and a grand ivory set of chess-men from China. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was angry and yet certain, seeing it all ahead like the moves in a chess game. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then he rose, and went downstairs, to play at chess with one of the students. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Now do you want to play chess? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Let's play chess. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- All this wasteful, wanton chess-playing IS very strange. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But compared with Dur醤 you were like a good sound chess player against a boy prodigy. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Count and I played at chess. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typed by Duane