chess

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see also: Chess

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Pronunciation

• enPR: chĕs, IPA: /t͡ʃɛs/

Noun

chess (uncountable)

1. A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

Translations

• French: échecs
• German: Schach, Schachspiel
• Italian: scacchi
• Portuguese: xadrez
• Russian: ша́хматы
• Spanish: ajedrez, escaques

Noun

chess (plural chesses)

1. (now chiefly, US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:

     Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

Noun

chess (plural chesses)

1. (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.

   • Each chess consists of three planks.

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Chess

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Proper noun

1. Surname
2. A river in Buckinghamshire, and, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.

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