chess
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chess/tʃes/
▶noun a board game of strategic skill for two players, the object of which is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack, leading to checkmate.
'chess' also found in these Oxford entries:
B
- bishop
- black
- capture
- castle
- check
- checkmate
- chessboard
- chessman
- develop
- discovered check
- draughts
- endgame
- en passant
- en prise
- e.p.
- exchange
- exchequer
- fianchetto
- file
- fool's mate
- fork
- gambit
- GM
- grand master
- j'adoube
- jeopardy
- K
- key
- king
- king's bishop
- kingside
- king's knight
- king's pawn
- king's rook
- knight
- kriegspiel
- major piece
- man
- master
- mate
- minor piece
- N
- passed pawn
- patzer
- pawn
- perpetual check
- piece
- pin
