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Definition of Chess game
1. Noun. A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king.
Terms within: Chess Move, Checker Board, Checkerboard
Examples of category: En Passant, Exchange, Exchange, Check, Chess Opening, Opening, Counterattack, Counterplay, Bishop, Black, Castle, Rook, King, Horse, Knight, Pawn, Queen, White, Development, Develop, Develop, Stalemate, Castle, Open, Promote, Checkmate, Mate, Check, Fork, Pin, Queen
Generic synonyms: Board Game
Specialized synonyms: Shogi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chess Game
Literary usage of Chess game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat by John A. Warden, III (1995)
"Offense or Defense— the chess game IR SUPERIORITY, EVEN WHEN NOT AN END IN ITSELF,
accomplishes two things: It permits offensive air operations against any ..."
2. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"... be done by a chaotic trial as by a chess-game trial. Do we know that our judges
and our lawyers, as men, and without any rules, will be able and willing ..."
3. The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist by Jacques Vallee (1982)
"We see how the father of Jonathan Livingston Seagull was rudely thrown out of a
long-distance chess game, and why the computer industry could learn a lot ..."
4. A Supplement to A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"Certainly as much false justice may be done by a chaotic trial as by a chess-game
trial. Do we know that our judges and our lawyers, as men, and without any ..."
5. Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence by David Weissman (1977)
"Our chess game is now bounded by rules of the very kinds that are to provide the
exhaustive account of meaning promised by the 'meaning is rule-governed ..."
6. Relatives: Being Further Verses by Arthur William Ryder (1919)
"THE CHESS-GAME From BHARTRIHARI Where there were scattered pieces on the board,
There now is one; Next, many slaughtered pieces are restored, . ..."
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