chess
noun /tʃes/
/tʃes/
[uncountable]- 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).
enlarge image- the position of the chess pieces on the board
- Alex plays chess as a hobby.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- correspondence
- junior
- …
- game
- play
- board
- piece
- set
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French esches, plural of eschec ‘a check’ from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’.
