Chess, etc. A problem. Obsolete.

Chess. An artificial position in which a player on one side has to achieve a checkmate or other specified result in a set number of moves.

a problem in which two pieces are withdrawn to allow an opponent to escape from a stalemate position, while simultaneously being used to prepare a…

With prefixed numeral: a problem in which the king is to be mated in the specified number of moves.

Chess. A strategy using the themes of an Indian problem; (also) an Indian problem.

= retractor, n.1 4.

(see quots.).

Chess. A problem which involves retracting one or more assumed moves before making forward moves to resolve it.

a type of chess problem in which Black is required to play so that White may give mate in a certain number of moves.

A chess problem in which one player (usually White, moving first) must force the other to deliver checkmate, typically within a specified number of…

Chess.. A problem involving few men, spec. one in which not more than seven pieces are used. Also: a game of relatively few moves.

Chess. = waiting problem n. at waiting, n.1 compounds 3.

Chess. Applied to a particular class of problems: in full grab theme. (See quot. 1913.)

Any of various versions of chess involving unorthodox rules or pieces. Also: an unorthodox chess problem; = fairy problem n. at fairy, n. adj.compoun…

Chess. More fully King's (or Queen's) Indian: an Indian defence or (occasionally) attack.