Illustration of chess
- chessboard with chess pieces arranged as at the beginning of a game
: a game for 2 players each of whom moves 16 pieces according to fixed rules across a checkerboard and tries to checkmate the opponent's king
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: a weedy annual European bromegrass (Bromus secalinus) widely naturalized in North America as a weed especially in grain
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: any of several weedy bromegrasses related to chess
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Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Learning the basic rules for chess is easy, Ahilan said.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
And if this becomes an arcane game of legal chess, both his critics and Fauci would have available moves.
—Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Salah is also a keen chess player and loves the strategy involved.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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The company, known for designing some of the world’s first personal computers, built the first AI to defeat a world champion at chess, in 1997, and then the first AI to win the quiz show Jeopardy, in 2011.
—Billy Perrigo, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Learning the basic rules for chess is easy, Ahilan said.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
And if this becomes an arcane game of legal chess, both his critics and Fauci would have available moves.
—Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
Salah is also a keen chess player and loves the strategy involved.
—The Athletic Uk Staff, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Chess.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chess. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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