Synonyms:
chess, chess_game
Meaning: a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
Synonyms:
chess, cheat, Bromus_secalinus
Meaning: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Usage examples
They sat at a table of chess, but were not attending to the game.
The porter entered in the hall, where he found none but two lords seated at a great table, playing chess for their delight.
Our most popular game for evening recreation is chess; so many players have developed that our two sets of chessmen are inadequate.
A cousin of mine, who secured his chess blue at Oxford, would, they tell me, have represented his University in the dominoes match also, had he not unfortunately dislocated the radius bone of his bazooka while training for it.
"If she were ill, she would have sent for the doctor," said gossip number one; "now the doctor has been playing chess in my house all day. He said to me, laughing, that in these days there is only one disease, and that, unluckily, it is incurable."