chess

chess

/tʃes/

a game for two people played on a board marked with black and white squares on which each playing piece (representing a king, queen, castle, etc.) is moved according to special rules. The aim is to put the other player’s king in a position from which it cannot escape (= to checkmate it).

the position of the chess pieces on the board

Alex plays chess as a hobby.

Collocations

adjective

… of chess

verb + chess

chess + noun

Word Origin

Middle English: from Old French esches, plural of eschec ‘a check’ from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’.