Definition of chess

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Chess (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..

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Chesses :: Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge..
Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game..
Archduchess :: Archduchess (n.) The consort of an archduke; also, a princess of the imperial family of Austria. See Archduke..
Chessom :: Chessom (n.) Mellow earth; mold.
Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..
House :: House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece..
Monarchess :: Monarchess (n.) A female monarch.
Duchesse D'angouleme :: Duchesse d'Angouleme () A variety of pear of large size and excellent flavor.
Tree :: Tree (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like..
Chess-apple :: Chess-apple (n.) The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).
Chesstree :: Chesstree (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail..
King :: King (n.) The chief piece in the game of chess.
Knight :: Knight (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head..
Queen :: Queen (n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen..
Castle :: Castle (n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook..
Chessy Copper :: Chessy copper () The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite..
Chess :: Chess (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..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A move, as at chess or checkers..
Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..
Chessmen :: Chessmen (pl. ) of Chessma.
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