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chess
1[ches]
noun
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.
chess
2[ches]
noun
plural
chessesany of several weedy species of bromegrass, especially Bromus secalinus.
chess
3[ches]
noun
plural
chess, chessesone of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.
chess
1/ ʃɛ /
noun
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
chess
2/ ʃɛ /
noun
a less common name for rye-brome
chess
3/ ʃɛ /
noun
a floorboard of the deck of a pontoon bridge
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Example Sentences
"The limited workforce, who are already feeling undervalued must not be moved around like pieces on a chess board or made to work even harder," said BMA council chair Dr Tom Dolphin.
A famous chess club in a slum of Uganda's capital that became the focus of the Hollywood movie Queen of Katwe is still producing champions - but faces a daily struggle to survive.
She’s playing chess, and she’s playing the long game, and poor Chloe is not in on any of it.
This dismantles the entire notion of the "art of the deal" 4D chess manoeuvres designed to extract trade advantages.
“There’s a little bit of a chess thing with golf, in that you can never really master it,” he said.
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