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What is the difference between draughts and chess?

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As nouns the difference between draughts and chess

is that draughts is plural of lang=en while 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 a verb draughts

is third-person singular of draught.

draughts

English

Noun

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia draughts) (-)
  • (board games, British, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have 20 pieces, known as men]] , and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. (See [[w:draughts, the Wikipedia page for the full rules of the game. There are various variants of the game.)
  • A mild vesicatory.

    • Synonyms

    * checkers (US, Canada )

    Verb

    (head)
  • (draught)

    • 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)