chess
(tʃes )
uncountable noun A2
Chess is a game for two people, played on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces, including a king. Your aim is to move your pieces so that your opponent's king cannot escape being taken.
...the world chess championships.
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Collocations:
chess game chess grandmaster chess match chess move chess piece chess player chess prodigy chess team chess tournament competitive chess computer chess play chess
Chapters often start with a personal anecdote - such as a chess game in a banya.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
And I am trying to play the chess game the right way.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Think of it as the opening move in a chess game.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Perspective is challenged as we the audience look down through a tunnel at a chess game being played on a floor below.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Just then Hanuman finished his chess game, and he tipped over the salt shaker in token of defeat.
THE BROKEN GOD
As with the post-war defeat of a chess grandmaster, the triumph of the machine could not diminish the game.
The Times Literary Supplement
He ran in like a sprinter, hurled the ball like a javelin thrower and finessed his opponents like a chess grandmaster.
Times, Sunday Times
And by 13 he'd become a chess grandmaster.
The Sun
A chess grandmaster has claimed that some players may be cheating by using a mobile phone app in the lavatory to work out their next move.
Times, Sunday Times
Business colleagues liken him to a chess grandmaster, always thinking five moves ahead.
Times, Sunday Times
Each are playing with fear, so as a result this could be a bit of a chess match.
Times, Sunday Times
The game felt like a chess match, which should be no surprise given what was at stake.
Times,Sunday Times
At a typical point in a chess match there are roughly 20 possible moves.
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It dates from 1653 and its central courtyard houses an afternoon book market and the occasional chess match as well as tango nights.
The Sun
On the continent, they accept a slower build-up, more of a chess match.
Times, Sunday Times
It would be the sort of political chess move to put a smile on his face, but it would be significant.
Times, Sunday Times
His chess move may yet create problems further down the road: it can in this increasingly angry tribal political landscape be dangerous to unite your opponents in righteous indignation.
Times, Sunday Times
If a grandmaster says she has a hunch about a particular chess move, we would be sensible to listen.
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For him the strength of a chess move was in its logic, not in its efficiency.
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The change may betoken the off-putting chess move of the knight.
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Every taken piece he deposited in his waistcoat pocket, and during lessons any misdemeanour was rewarded by a very accurately thrown chess piece.
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There are simple rules for the way each chess piece moves but beyond these basic constraints, the pieces can roam freely across the board.
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They investigate the cognitive requirements and the thought processes involved in moving a chess piece.
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With every chess piece you takeover, the game cuts into an animated clip where one piece devours another piece in a creative yet funny way.
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He represents the chess piece of the same name.
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Although an undoubted genius, he was therefore a poor chess player.
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I was a keen chess player, though my enthusiasm exceeded my talent.
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The highest ranked chess player in the world.
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Every chess player has made a decision that they struggle to understand away from the heat of battle.
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But then things get tricky and you need to start thinking like a chess player.
The Sun
It's about a chess prodigy, but don't let that put you off if you don't play.
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He was a chess prodigy and holds the record for the youngest grandmaster, at the age of 12 years and 7 months, in history.
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He achieved some fame as a chess prodigy.
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He was soon recognised as a chess prodigy.
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Considered to have been the strongest chess master of his time, as well as the first recorded chess prodigy in history.
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I wasn't on the debating team or the chess team.
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Under his leadership seven members of the chess team qualified for state.
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The first chess team usually met several times a week to practice tactics and strategies.
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A member of the chess team, he was a stellar student who graduated at the top of his class.
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The chess team has placed as high as tenth nationally.
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Every big chess tournament nowadays has its own website but that means fans have to search out each one as it happens.
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Based on ratings, this may well be the strongest chess tournament ever staged.
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Now in its 12th year, it attracts the world's greatest players and has established itself as the most prestigious open chess tournament in the world.
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And yet, like the bridge, it's as quiet down there as a chess tournament.
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He finds his soldiers sloppy, corrupt and demoralised, and decides to raise morale by holding a chess tournament.
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Hence, expert trainers are in high demand in a culture which has traditionally regarded international competitive chess as a sport.
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With her own family in mind, she decided to leave the jetset life of the competitive chess player behind.
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The pattern bore no relation to competitive chess.
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In each case their premature withdrawal from competitive chess was a huge disappointment to chess fans worldwide.
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The configuration of the pieces therefore bore no relationship to competitive chess.
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This influential paper introduced the field of computer chess.
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These operations are used in computing applications including cryptography, coding theory, and computer chess.
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It also employed usual algorithms as found in computer chess systems: alpha-beta pruning with move ordering, transposition tables, etc.
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His innovations included the first use of bitboards (a now-common method for representing game positions) in computer chess.
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Refutation tables were sometimes used instead of transposition tables in the earlier years of computer chess, when memory was more limited.
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He was shot near Sangin - after previously cheating death while playing chess.
The Sun (2010)
The students pass their time playing chess and studying.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
They were playing chess, another one was reading an encyclopedia.
The Sun (2013)
On dry land, we play chess, go rock climbing or sit in the shady heat and just take in the sounds of the animals.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Translations:
Chinese: 国际象棋
Japanese: チェス
- infiltrate a group
- infiltration
- infiltrator
- infin.
- in fine fettle
- infinite
- infinite amount
- infinite array
- infinite capacity
- infinite density
- infinite loop
- infinitely
- infinitely complex
- infinitely dense
- infinite number
- infinite patience
- infinite possibilities
- infinite possibility
- infinite potential
- infinite power
- infinite range
- infinite resources
- infinite set of
- infinitesimal
- infinitesimally