CHESS
What does "CHESS" mean?
A two-player strategy board game played on a 64-square grid with sixteen pieces each.
Meanings
- The board game of strategy in which players move pieces to checkmate the opponent's king. They played chess by the window every Sunday afternoon.
- A situation of calculated, competing strategy, by metaphor. The negotiation became a slow game of chess between the two firms. figurative
Did you know?
- Claude Shannon estimated in 1950 that the number of possible chess games is around 10^120 - far more than the roughly 10^80 atoms in the observable universe.
Word origin
From Old French 'esches', the plural of 'eschec' (check), from Persian 'shah' (king); the game's name traces back through the warning move 'check' to the word for 'king'.
Remember it
CHESS = the CHE of 'check' plus a double-S that hisses like two armies facing off.
A little poem
Thirty-two carved soldiers, no blood spilled-
and yet the loser feels the same cold loss.
A war you carry home inside a box.
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Wordplay
- I used to be addicted to playing chess on the stairs. It was a real step-by-step game.
What it teaches
In chess as in life, the queen does the work but the whole game is about protecting the slowest piece.
Quick facts
What does CHESS mean?
A two-player strategy board game played on a 64-square grid with sixteen pieces each.
Is CHESS a valid word?
Yes — CHESS is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHESS?
CHESS has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHESS come from?
From Old French 'esches', the plural of 'eschec' (check), from Persian 'shah' (king); the game's name traces back through the warning move 'check' to the word for 'king'.
What can CHESS teach us?
In chess as in life, the queen does the work but the whole game is about protecting the slowest piece.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.