chess

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Financial crisis in Russian chess: Vladimir Malakhov (2709) has to play simultaneously for Ural on all six boards against Tomsk-400 (just kidding - his teammates happen all to be wandering around the hall).

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  1. noun A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king.
  2. noun Any of several species of brome grass, especially the cheat.
  3. noun One of the floorboards of a pontoon bridge.

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check · castle · quork · trork · checkmate · zugswang · knight · pawn · queen · king · bishop

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  1. Middle English ches, short for Old French esches, pl. of eschec, check in chess; see check.
  2. Origin unknown.
  3. Middle English ches, tier, perhaps from Old French chasse, frame, from Latin capsa, box.

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  1. Early modern English also chesse, chests, from Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French esches, eschas, eskies, nom. sing, of eschec, eschac, check; F. plural échecs, chess, = Italian scacchi (Middle Latin scacci), plural, = Dutch schaak = German schach = Danish schak = Swedish schack = Icelandic skāk, chess, ult. from Persian shāh, king: see check, n., and shah.
  2. Cf. equivalent cheat.
  3. Cf. equivalent chessex, and see chess-tree. apparently a corruption of chestnut; cf. Spanish castañuelas, chess-trees, from castaña, chestnut.
 

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