chess

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- a game for two people in which each player can move sixteen pieces around a board with black and white squares: chess (noun U)
Would you like a game of chess? ◎ Do you play chess?
- a person who plays chess: chess player
- one of the small objects that you use when you are playing chess: (chess) piece, man (plural men), chessman (plural chessmen)
the black/white pieces
- all the pieces and the board that you need to play chess: chess set
- to take a chess piece and move it to another place on the board: move (sth); noun: move
You can only move a king one space in any direction. ◎ 'Have you moved?' 'Not yet.' ◎ a good/clever/stupid/careless move
- the time in a game of chess when one person must move a piece: move
It's your move.
- the first move in a game of chess: opening move
- to remove a chess piece of your opponent: take* sth
I took her queen and then she took my rook.
- a stage in the game of chess when a person's king could be taken by the other person: check (noun U); when you are in this position, you are in check
- to cause sb to be in check: put* sb in check; to move a piece so you are no longer in check: get* out of check
You can get out of check by moving your queen in front of the king.
- the end of a game of chess, when one player can not move their king out of check: checkmate (noun U)
- the end of a game of chess, when neither player can win: stalemate (noun U)
- when you put sb in check, you say checkcheckmate

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  chess game, cheat, Bromus secalinus