Chess

n. board game (played by two people)

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 similar, much older games of Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in clubs, online, by correspondence, in tournaments and informally. Aspects of art and science are found in chess composition and theory. Chess is also advocated as a way of enhancing mental prowess.
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Chess or CHESS may refer to:GamesChess, a complex board game played with chess pieces on a chess boardChess variants including:Xiangqi, or Chinese chessShogi, sometimes called Japanese chessMakruk, or Thai chessChaturanga, or Indian chess Janggi, or Korean chessSittuyin, or Burmese chess 3D ChessChess Titans, a computer game of chess included in Windows VistaChess (application), a chess computer game for Mac OS XChess (Northwestern University), a pioneering chess program from the 1970s
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When annotating chess games, commentators frequently use question marks and exclamation points to denote a move as bad or good. The symbols normally used are "??", "?", "?!", "!?", "!", and "!!". The corresponding symbol is juxtaposed in the text immediately after the move (e.g. Re7? or Kh1!?, see algebraic chess notation). Use of these annotation symbols is always somewhat subjective, and different annotators will often wind up using the same symbols differently.
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Noun
1. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
(synonym) cheat, Bromus secalinus
(hypernym) brome, bromegrass
2. a game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
(synonym) chess game
(hypernym) board game
(hyponym) shogi
(part-meronym) chess move
(class) exchange

(n.)
A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
  

(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.
  

<games> A two-player game with perfect information.
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(1995-03-25)