chessplayer

See also: chess player and chess-player

English

Etymology

From chess +‎ player.

Noun

chessplayer (plural chessplayers)

1. Alternative spelling of chess player
   • 1896, Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet, page 37:

     The hours spent there by Corvick were present to my fancy as those of a chessplayer bent with a silent scowl, all the lamplit winter, over his board and his moves.