chess

Noun

chess (uncountable)

1. A two-player game played with a board of eight rows of eight squares of alternating colours and 16 pieces for each player: eight pawns, two knights, two rooks, two bishops, a queen and a king; the aim is to get the opponent"s king in a position on the board such that it cannot avoid being captured (the state known as checkmate).

5 letters in word "chess": C E H S S.

No anagrams for chess found in this word list.

Words found within chess:

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• Definitions:
• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
• Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. Sometimes called Western Chess or International Chess to distinguish it from its predecessors and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe in the second half of the 15th century after evolving from ...
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• Chess is a Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu. Dileep plays the male protagonist and Bhavana is his heroine.The film also stars Ashish Vidyarthi,Jagathy Sreekumar,Harisree Ashokan, Vijayaraghavan etc.
• Chess was a pioneering chess program from the 1970s, authored by Larry Atkin and David Slate at Northwestern University. Chess ran on Control Data Corporation's line of supercomputers. ...
• (Clearing House Electronic Subregister System) An electronic transfer and settlement system operated by the ASX.
• is a game for two players. It is played on a board, with two colors of pieces. The board is a square, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces (eight pawns, two each of knights, bishops, and rooks, and one king and queen). ...
• Clearing House Electronic Subregister System of the Australian Stock Exchange. CHESS is the settlement system for equities in Australia, which allows Real-time gross settlement (RTGS) of transactions.
• means the settlement system for share transfers operated by ACH and ASTC.
• A computer system that handles the tracking and settlement of trades.
• (Sanskrit: Chaturanga) is an abstract strategy board game and mental sport for two players. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king. This occurs when the king is under immediate attack (in check) and there is no way to prevent it from being captured on the next move.

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