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Synonyms for chess
tʃɛschess

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  1. chess, cheat, Bromus secalinusnoun

    weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

    Synonyms:
    cheat, chess game, darnel, rig, cheater, bearded darnel, deceiver, beguiler, tare, trickster, slicker, swindle, cheating

  2. chess, chess gamenoun

    a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

    Synonyms:
    chess game, cheat

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  1. chaturanga

    indian word for four

    chess board has 64 squares, chaturanga is warrior pose on all fours staff position.

    Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

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  1. List of paraphrases for "chess":

    failures, chessboard, failure

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. CHESS

    Synonyms:
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How to use chess in a sentence?

  1. Nicolas Chamfort:

    People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

  2. Al Sharpton:

    He was a philosopher at heart that always saw the bigger picture. Even when we would engage in debate I felt he was playing chess while I was playing checkers, mario, you have earned it and your place in history is secure. You can now sleep with the greats.

  3. Richard Chang:

    We did what we call a cut-down : We opened up a big artery in the shoulder area and surgically tied in a graft-conduit, that allowed me to put in the 5-liter pump into the shoulder area through a graft, and pull the other one out from the groin. That ultimately I think is like playing chess — you got ta plan for the next move.

  4. Garry Kasparov, Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg, September 13, 2004:

    It's more easy to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia's problems in 15 minutes

  5. Samuel Dewey:

    You're going against an opponent who has almost unlimited resources, house Intelligence's a three-dimensional game of chess.


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