单词 | king's field |
释义 | > as lemmasking's field e. Chess. Originally: †the playing area of a chessboard (obsolete). In later use: that part of a chessboard to which a specified piece may move; the immediate vicinity of a specified piece (esp. the king). In later use chiefly in king's field. ΚΠ a1525 Bk. Chess 2073 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I In this sport quhar victor suld be had Quhen to the king chek in the feild is maid.] 1614 A. Saul Famous Game Chesse-play ii. sig. B2 Place the white Queene next her King in a white house, which is the fourth house on that side of the field. 1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester v. 60 The Bishop is tyed to one colour of the field out of which he cannot pass, but the Knight passeth through all the houses of the field. 1784 P. Thicknesse Speaking Figure 18 The Bishop walks always in the same colour of the field which he is placed in at first. 1803 P. Pratt Stud. Chess II. 136 The office of the knight is, to exclude the adverse king from the squares which are out of the bishop's field. 1898 Brit. Chess Mag. May 221 The Knights..guard exactly the same squares of the King's field in both mates. 1961 G. Abrahams Technique in Chess i. iv. 100 A bishop exploits the weakness of a knight:..1 P–Kt5, Kt×P 2 B×P (controlling the knight's field). 1964 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 23 Apr. 23/4 He brought off a beautiful pure mate..that is each square in the Kings field was attacked only once. 2002 Boston Globe (Nexis) 1 Jan. e6 Ivanchuk offered a pawn and Anand decided to take it, opening up his king's field. < as lemmas |
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