In some games of skill: To surround (the pieces of an opponent) in such a manner that a move becomes impossible without capture. Also said of the…

transitive. Chess and Backgammon. To capture (a piece); = sense 1f. Obsolete.

transitive. To cover (check) in chess. Also intransitive.

transitive. In board games and card games: to take (another player's piece, card, etc.) during play. Cf. capture, v. 2.

transitive. Chess. To reveal (an attack, esp. check) by removing a piece which stands between the attacking piece and the piece being attacked…

Chess. transitive. To attempt to gain a positional advantage in relation to (an opponent's piece or pieces, or a square on the board); to threaten…

transitive. Chess. To move (a piece) back from an advanced or threatened position. Also intransitive: (of a piece) to move in this way.

Chess. transitive. To attack (two pieces) simultaneously with the same piece.

transitive. Chess. To trap (an opposing piece) so that it cannot be moved without exposing a more valuable piece to capture. Also with down.

Chess. transitive. To take (an opponent's piece) immediately after a piece of one's own has been taken by that piece.

Chess. (transitive) To support a piece or pawn with another.

Chess. To move (a man) so as to obstruct the line of action of an opposing piece, esp. when the latter is giving check. Also absol., or with the…

Chess. transitive.

transitive. Originally in chess: to take back or unmake (a move). Later also in various card games: to withdraw or take back (a card that has been…

Chess. to take (a pawn) en passant: to take with one of your own pawns an adversary's pawn that has been moved forward two squares, passing over the…

Chess, Draughts, etc. To take (an opposing piece). Cf. take, v. 1f.

Chess. To refuse to take a piece or pawn offered in (a gambit).

transitive. Chess. To find an alternative solution to (a problem); (of a move, solution, etc.) to spoil (a problem) by differing from the…

Chess. transitive. To move (pawns) so that one no longer stands directly in front of the other.

transitive. Chess. To release (a pinned piece or pawn), as by moving away the piece it is protecting, capturing the piece creating the pin, etc.

Chess. To meet or answer with a countermove.

transitive. To give (a piece) immunity from capture: used esp. in chess problems.

Chess. To put or leave (a man) in a position where it can be captured without equivalent loss by one's opponent, in order to gain a future advantage.

(transitive) to develop (a bishop) in this way.