chess : Idioms & Phrases

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chess board

  • noun a checkerboard used to play chess
    chessboard.
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chess club

  • noun a club of people to play chess
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chess game

  • noun a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
    chess.
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chess master

  • noun a chess player of great skill
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chess match

  • noun a match between chess players
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chess move

  • noun the act of moving a chess piece
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chess opening

  • noun a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
    opening.
    • he memorized all the important chess openings
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chess piece

  • noun any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
    chessman.
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chess player

  • noun someone who plays the game of chess
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chess set

  • noun checkerboard and a set of 32 pieces used to play chess
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chess-apple

Chess"-ap`ple noun
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  1. The wild service of Europe (Purus torminalis).
Webster 1913

downy chess

  • noun annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean
    Bromus tectorum; drooping brome; downy brome; downy cheat; cheatgrass; downy bromegrass.
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japanese chess

  • noun grass of Mediterranean and temperate Asia
    Bromus japonicus; Japanese brome.
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