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Chess vs Poker - What's the difference?

chess | poker |

As nouns the difference between chess and poker

is that 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 while poker is a metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

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)

    poker

    English

    Etymology 1

    (poke).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
  • One who pokes.
  • A kind of duck, the pochard.
    • Synonyms
    * (fireplace utensil) firestick, stoker

    Etymology 2

    American English, perhaps from first element of (etyl) Pochspiel, from (etyl) pochen, perhaps from (etyl) poque

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game.
  • (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
    • Derived terms
    * poker chip * poker face * poker-faced
    Related terms
    * when the chips are down
    See also
    * three card brag

    External links

    * (projectlink) *

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) , and English puck.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
    • (Webster 1913) ----