chesser
See also: Chesser
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛsə/
Noun
editchesser (plural chessers)
- (rare) A chess player.
- 1877, The Chess Journal, numbers 74-94, page 232:
- Where are those principles of fair play that allow both sides a hearing? that give a move to each player in turn? and what neglect of a chesser's analytical powers to make up your mind and decision from the analysis of the moves only of the Attack, not regarding what the Defense can move in reply?
- 1979, Chess Life & Review, volume 34, page 4:
- […] a chesser of old, / Won a game in a shower of gold. / His move had the crowd floored, / And coins showered the board. / (They were paying off bets, I am told.)
- 1989 July, Martin Amis, “Chess is Their Life”, in The Times Literary Supplement:
- Earlier this summer I played Nigel Short, the world number three, at what chessers call a charity ‘simul’, or simultaneous display.