chess

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A chess game

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Vulgar Latin *scaccus, from Arabic شاه (shah, king in chess), from Persian شاه (shah, shah, king).

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chess (usually uncountable; plural chesses)

  1. A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
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[edit] Etymology 2

Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

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chess (plural chesses)

  1. (now chiefly US) A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
    • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
      Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].
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