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chess | chessic |

As a noun chess

is a board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

As an adjective chessic is

pertaining to chess.

chess

English

(wikipedia chess)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
    • Related terms
    * chessboard * chess clock * chessman * chess piece * chess set * computer chess
    See also
    (wikibooks chess) * * checkers * draughts * scacchic

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

    Noun

    (chesses)
  • A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
    • Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • * Farrow
    • Each chess consists of three planks.
    (Webster 1913)

    chessic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (rare) Pertaining to chess.
  • * 18?? , Charles Dibdin, The Chessiad
    • The chessic tribes, peculiar in their gait, / Vary their modes of motion; some march straight, / Direct and forward, some oblique...
  • * 1964 , Chess Review
    • As we've already announced, your opponent is in the last stages of chessic caries.
  • * 1972 , Readings in Psychology Today
    • To diagnose your opponent's weaknesses — an over-adventurous style, a dislike for assuming the defensive, overconfidence in certain types of positions, impatience in the endgame, rigidity in choice of openings — requires a psychological as well as chessic analysis.

    Synonyms

    * scacchic