chess
See also: Chess
EnglishEdit
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PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Persian شاه (šâh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /xšāyaθiya/).
Displaced native game and name Old English cyningtæfl ("king's board") with the continental game (common chess) and French name ("chess").
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
NounEdit
chess (usually uncountable, plural chesses)
- A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Derived termsEdit
- 3-D chess
- Absolute Rettah chess
- Advancing chess
- Alice chess
- Ambi-chess
- antichess
- Armageddon chess
- atomic chess
- Black and White chess
- blindfold chess
- blitz chess
- Blot-straight chess
- bughouse chess
- bullet chess
- Burmese chess
- Capablanca chess
- Capablanca's chess
- Capricorn chess
- capture chess
- Cheshire Cat chess
- chess boxer
- chess boxing
- chess clock
- chess engine
- chess master
- chess pie
- chess piece
- chess player
- chess set
- chess tart
- chess timer
- chess-apple
- chess-like
- chess-man
- chess-piece
- chess-playing
- chess-rating
- Chess960
- chessboard
- chessboxer
- chessboxing
- chessic
- chesslike
- chessman
- chessmaster
- chesspiece
- chessplayer
- Chimaera chess
- Chinese chess
- Co-regal chess
- Complete Contramatic chess
- complicacious chess
- computer chess
- Contramatic chess
- correspondence chess
- Courier chess
- cubic chess
- Dabbabante chess
- Decimal Oriental chess
- Decimal Rettah chess
- Demigorgon chess
- Dodo chess
- Double Rettah chess
- double-king chess
- Dunce's chess
- Ethiopian chess
- fairy chess
- fast chess
- Fischer random chess
- four-handed chess
- four-man chess
- four-player chess
- four-way chess
- giveaway chess
- Gorgon chess
- Gorgona chess
- Gryphon chess
- half-queen's chess
- hexagonal chess
- hope chess
- Idle Kings' chess
- Imitante Queen chess
- international chess
- Jabberwocky chess
- Japanese chess
- killer chess
- kinglet chess
- Korean chess
- lightning chess
- Looking-glass chess
- losing chess
- Mad Threeparty chess
- Manchu chess
- March Hare chess
- Meddlers' chess
- Megasaur chess
- Mimotaur chess
- minichess
- Mock chess
- Mongolian chess
- Nightrider chess
- Rangers chess
- rapid chess
- Rettah chess
- robot chess
- Semi-queen chess
- Simpleton chess
- solving chess
- speed chess
- Sphinx chess
- suicide chess
- Synchronistic chess
- take-all chess
- three-dimensional chess
- three-handed chess
- three-man chess
- three-player chess
- three-way chess
- Timur's cubic chess
- Tri-D Chess
- Tri-Dimensional Chess
- Tweedle chess
- twin orthodox chess
- Unirexal chess
- Western chess
- Wyvern chess
TranslationsEdit
two-player board game
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See alsoEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
Uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.
NounEdit
chess (plural chesses)
- (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 59:
- Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
Etymology 3Edit
Compare French châssis (“a framework of carpentry”).
NounEdit
chess (plural chesses)
- (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
- the balks are laid and covered with chesses to within 1 foot of the trestle
- 1885, Edward S. Farrow, Farrow's Military Encyclopedia; A Dictionary of Military Knowledge:
- ach chess consists of three planks.
- 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
ReferencesEdit
chess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913