chess

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US /tʃes/ 
UK /tʃes/ 

Oxford Essential Dictionary

chess

 noun (no plural)
a game that two people play on a board with black and white squares on it (called a chessboard). Each player has sixteen pieces that can be moved around the board in different ways.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

chess

chess /tʃes/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: esches, plural of escec; ⇨ ↑check2]
a game for two players, who move their playing pieces according to particular rules across a special board to try to trap their opponent’s ↑king (=most important piece):
They meet fairly often to play chess.
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COLLOCATIONS
■ verbs
play chess Do you want to play chess?
■ chess + NOUN
a chess player Today, many chess players have online games.
a chess game/match Who won the chess game?
a chess board (=with black and white squares on it) There was a chess board set up on the table.
a chess piece (=one that you move around the board) Some of the chess pieces were missing.
a chess set (=a complete group of the different chess pieces) She gave him a beautifully carved wooden chess set.
a chess move You first have to learn the basic chess moves.
a chess championship/tournament (=a chess competition) Ray's taking part in a chess tournament.
a chess club a member of the school chess club
a chess master (=a very skilled player) An eight year-old who can beat a chess master is remarkable.
a chess grand master (=the highest title a chess player can get) Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster.
the chess world He's a star of the chess world.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

chess

chess   [tʃes]    [tʃes]  noun
uncountable
a game for two people played on a board marked with black and white squares on which each playing piece (representing a king, queen, castle, etc.) is moved according to special rules. The aim is to put the other player's king in a position from which it cannot escape (= to checkmate  it)
Word Origin:
[chess] Middle English: from Old French esches, plural of eschec ‘a check’ from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’.  
Example Bank:
a star of the chess world

the position of the chess pieces on the board

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

chess / tʃes / noun [ U ]

A2 a game played by two people on a square board, in which each player has 16 pieces that can be moved on the board in different ways

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Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

chess

/tʃes/

Chess is a game for two people, played on a chessboard. Each player has 16 pieces, including a king. Your aim is to move your pieces so that your opponent’s king cannot escape being taken.
...the world chess championships.

N-UNCOUNT

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

chess

chess /ˈʧɛs/ noun [noncount] : a game for two players in which each player moves 16 pieces across a board and tries to place the opponent's king in a position from which it cannot escape
• We played (a game of) chess.
- often used before another noun
• a chess player/champion
• a chess match/tournament