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How to pronounce chess in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bromus secalinus, cheat
Type of bromegrass, brome
Type Words
Synonyms chess game
Type of board game
Has types shogi

Examples of chess

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Called Solitaire Chess, the game is a cross between a puzzle and standard chess.
From the techcrunch.com
There are about 50 competitive chess boxers worldwide, and only one is American.
From the time.com
The official turns out to be the Russian head of world chess Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I also have friends locally with whom I will hang out if I am not playing chess.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Chess can, indeed, be uncannily expressive of life's mystery and mental torture.
From the telegraph.co.uk
To complicate matters, Macedonian politics is a game of three-dimensional chess.
From the economist.com
His triumph in Iceland was the culmination of 23 years'relentless work on chess.
From the guardian.co.uk
What are the unique psychological ingredients of the minds of top chess players?
From the guardian.co.uk
In 2008, free chess sites offer databases, online play, and tutorials worldwide.
From the theatlantic.com
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  • A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
  • Chess is a board game involving two players. It is played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the beginning of the game each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. ...
  • Chess is a 2006 Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu. Dileep plays the male protagonist and Bhavana is his heroine. The film also stars Ashish Vidyarthi, Jagathy Sreekumar, Harisree Ashokan and Vijayaraghavan.
  • Who Do You Love? is a 2008 film named after the Bo Diddley song Who Do You Love. It is also known by its working title of Chess. It is a biopic of the record producer Leonard Chess and was directed by Jerry Zaks and written by Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte. ...
  • Chess is a chess game for Mac OS X, and its progenitor, OPENSTEP, featuring a high-quality graphical display and support for chess variants such as crazyhouse and suicide chess. Also included are different skins featuring metal, grass, marble and wood. ...
  • Computer chess is computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance. ...
  • Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Bju00F6rn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, and with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two menu2014an American grandmaster and a Soviet grandmasteru2014and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other...
  • Chess was a pioneering chess program from the 1970s, authored by Larry Atkin and David Slate at Northwestern University. Chess ran on Control Data Corporation's line of supercomputers. ...