chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĕs
ipa: /t͡ʃɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: chesses
Etymology: From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /⁠šāh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/).
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
Senses: examples: text: At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world.
ref: 2020 October 1, Aaron Alford, “Cloud9 signs grandmaster chess player Penguingm1”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2021:
text: FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2025, page 2:
synonyms: international chess
Western chess
glosses: A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
Synonyms: word: chess
Hypernyms: word: board game
word: game
Hyponyms: word: blitz chess
word: speed chess
Meronyms: word: chess move
word: chess piece
word: chessboard
word: opening
word: development
word: endgame
Derived terms: 3-D chess
3D chess
4D chess
5D chess
Absolute Rettah chess
Advancing chess
Alice chess
Ambi-chess
antichess
Armageddon chess
atomic chess
Black and White chess
blindfold chess
blitz chess
Blot-straight chess
bughouse chess
bullet chess
Burmese chess
Capablanca chess
Capablanca's chess
Capricorn chess
capture chess
Cheshire Cat chess
Chess960
chess-apple
chessboard
chess boxer
chessboxer
chess boxing
chessboxing
chess cake
chess clock
chessdom
chess engine
chessic
chessist
chesslike
chess-like
chess-man
chessman
chessmaster
chess master
chess pie
chesspiece
chess-piece
chess piece
chess player
chessplayer
chess-playing
chess-rating
chess set
chess tart
chess timer
Chimaera chess
Chinese chess
classical chess
Complete Contramatic chess
complicacious chess
computer chess
Contramatic chess
Co-regal chess
correspondence chess
Courier chess
cubic chess
Dabbabante chess
Decimal Oriental chess
Decimal Rettah chess
Demigorgon chess
Dodo chess
double-king chess
Double Rettah chess
Dunce's chess
Ethiopian chess
fairy chess
fast chess
Fischer random chess
four-dimensional chess
four-handed chess
four-man chess
four-player chess
four-way chess
giveaway chess
Gorgona chess
Gorgon chess
Gryphon chess
half-queen's chess
hexagonal chess
holochess
hope chess
hyperbullet chess
hyperchess
Idle Kings' chess
Imitante Queen chess
international chess
Jabberwocky chess
Japanese chess
killer chess
kinglet chess
Korean chess
lightning chess
Looking-glass chess
Los Alamos chess
losing chess
mad queen chess
Mad Threeparty chess
Manchu chess
March Hare chess
Meddlers' chess
Megasaur chess
Mimotaur chess
minichess
Mock chess
Mongolian chess
Nightrider chess
nonchess
Rangers chess
rapid chess
Rettah chess
robot chess
Russian chess
Semi-queen chess
Simpleton chess
solving chess
speed chess
Sphinx chess
suicide chess
Synchronistic chess
take-all chess
three-dimensional chess
three-handed chess
three-man chess
three-player chess
three-way chess
Timur's cubic chess
Tri-D Chess
Tri-Dimensional Chess
Tweedle chess
twin orthodox chess
ultrabullet chess
Unirexal chess
Vulcan chess
Western chess
Wyvern chess
Related terms: checkers
draughts
scacchic