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UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈtʃɛs/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/tʃɛs/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(ches)

Inflections of 'chess' (n):

chess: n (Uncountable sense(s): no inflections)

chess: npl (For the floating bridge plank)

chesses: npl (For the floating bridge plank)

chess¹ /tʃɛs/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]

Chessa game played on a chessboard by two people who each move 16 pieces of six kinds to bring the opponent's king into checkmate.

chess¹ (ches),USA pronunciation n.

Chessa game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard.

Old French esches, plural of eschec check¹
Middle English 1150–1200

chess² (ches),USA pronunciation n., pl. chess, chess•es.

Civil Engineeringone of the planks forming the roadway of a floating bridge.

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late Middle English ches tier, layer 1425–75

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

chess /tʃɛs/ n

a game of skill for two players using a chessboard on which chessmen are moved. Initially each player has one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, which have different types of moves according to kind. The object is to checkmate the opponent's king

Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French esches, plural of eschec check (at chess); see check

brome•grass (brōm′gras′, -gräs′),USA pronunciation n.

Greek brómos oats) + grass
Neo-Latin Brom(us) genus name (
1750–60

'chess' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Alekhine - Anderssen - board - Botvinnik - Capablanca - capture - champion - check - checkerboard - chessboard - chessman - dab hand - draughtboard - draughts - en passant - exclamation mark - Fischer - grandmaster - guard - Karpov - king - knight - Korchnoi - Lasker - master - Middleton - Morphy - Nimzowitsch - Olympiad - opening - Petrosian - piece - play - postmortem - queen - question mark - Réti - Spassky - speed chess - stalemate - Steinitz - apparat - B, b - bishop - black - blitz chess - board game - bromegrass - can - capped pawn

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Collocations: play a [game, round] of chess, always [wins, loses, cheats] at chess, always beats me at chess, more...

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